# haxe-ui
- n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:33 PMyou said you wanted it to open neofetch, right? You probably want to check the
package here https://api.haxe.orgsys - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:34 PMi mean im just playing around - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:34 PMI think you'll find out how to run arbitrary programs from Haxe there - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:34 PMdon't remember exactly if it was in that package but yeah there's a way - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:34 PMit seems ui development just isnt for me - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:35 PMhaxeui-hxwidgets will use your GTK theme since that's what wxWidgets uses when targeting GNU - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:35 PMye thats why i liked it - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:35 PMdunno if there is a way to make it use Qt instead - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:36 PMif you want to quickly prototype GUIs, you could try using some node/python tool with GTK bindings haxe compiles to both these languages and you can share application logic between them easily - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:36 PMhaxeui will perform better most of the time though - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:36 PMsince it's native (when using the hxWidgets backend) - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:37 PMyea, one problem tho, idk almost anything about oop, reading mainview.hx, i dont really understand anything - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:37 PM"super" - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:38 PMit's alright 🙂 you'll just pick stuff up with time - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:38 PMalots of new keywords - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:38 PMyou can ask here - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:38 PManything - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:40 PMi hate electron because of how heavy it is, but there are things like ultralight which makes web apps very light as in ram consumption, looks more appealing than haxe rn - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:41 PMconsidering how easy it is to make web ui - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/07/2021, 8:41 PMyou can use haxeui to a web ui also btw... just sayin' 🙂 - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:41 PMoh right - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:41 PMi dont have to learn haxe for that right? - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/07/2021, 8:42 PMwell, yeah, you will... its the same framework, different output - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/07/2021, 8:42 PMif you really dont want to learn haxe... then, yeah, using haxeui is going to be a pain for you - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:43 PMidek tbh, i just dont feel like doing anything rn - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:43 PM😄 - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:43 PMI agree that electron sucks in principle - n
nutritious-father-64388
11/07/2021, 8:43 PMbut well, we only got to this point because Qt and GTK tooling stopped in time - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:43 PMthings like boostrap studio looks juicy - u
user
11/07/2021, 8:46 PMshould we switch to casual talk