# haxe-ui
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orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:26 AMperhaps - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:26 AMbut yep time - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:26 AMi almost certainly could roll out my own (as i have with haxeui-kha and haxeui-raylib), but id have to investigate, and its never as easy as i initially expect - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:28 AMI know! rem I made something with Kha. Since it deals with letters I expect could make it work with heaps. But yep would take me few days and likely no one would use it. - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:29 AMI found with hxdaedalus that you can treat heaps and kha not so differently in some respects... but keeping it all within the ecosystem expectations is normally too much effort - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:30 AMthis is the kha one: https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-kha/blob/master/haxe/ui/backend/kha/TextField.hx the raylib one is basically a copy of it but made to work with the raylib render system (which is very similar) - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:30 AMand this one is far from perfect... its "acceptable" - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:32 AMinitGlyphs is a bit like your g.drawCharacters - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:33 AMis it? Good to know... naming is strange - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:33 AMwell in your render loop your actually doing the drawing... - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:33 AMbut in heaps - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:33 AM - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:34 AMseems to be the core of drawing the characters - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:34 AM - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:34 AMi think that actually draws it - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:35 AMbut yeah, what to draw is from the init - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:35 AMi guess i would have called that "buildGlyphs" - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:35 AM¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:36 AMbut I think rather than using TextInput of Heaps you would be better implementing your input over the top of Text and just using TextInput for ideas on the touch aspect - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:36 AMbecause I suspect you could maybe extend Text with your kha stuff - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:36 AMno render but some similar - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:36 AMyeah, i mean, if i implemented my own (based on the kha one lets say) then i would dump the heaps one entirely - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:37 AMWell the Text is a good base you may need to use his enums for multiline etc.. - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:37 AMbut its not something im going to do... at least not for a while... text input is the bane of any framework it seems... all handle things differently (or not at all)... and with vastly varying degrees of success - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:37 AMI think that TextInput is doing the selection stuff etc... - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:38 AMYer I guess you could just write a text engine that uses a sprite sheet and it could be made to work on heaps, kha etc... - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/12/2021, 9:38 AMi think openfl is the most "complete", but its text rendering in general is also the ugliest / dodgey imo - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:38 AMso two triangles per letter - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:39 AMI have tested text this way in NME - o
orange-van-60470
11/12/2021, 9:39 AMjust roughly