# haxe-ui
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bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:25 PMI would guess its possible, ill have to play, i mean, Menu is just a vbox anyways (i assume) - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:25 PM> Menu is just a vbox anyways (i assume) it is - i
icy-zebra-52882
11/15/2021, 4:25 PMit happens only when I set
on menu itemswidth: auto - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:26 PMah right, ok, that probably makes sense then - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:26 PMthe components end up with a size of 0 - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:26 PMi could probably stop that, but actually, its important really - i
icy-zebra-52882
11/15/2021, 4:26 PMalso when
but that's likely expectedwidth: 0 - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:26 PMyeah - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:26 PMi think its good to have that warning there... you likely dont want 0 sized components - i
icy-zebra-52882
11/15/2021, 4:27 PMin English it doesn't matter so much for word wrapping, but when you translate to, for example, German, things get very long - i
icy-zebra-52882
11/15/2021, 4:30 PMhttps://plzlookat.mystupid.pictures/hl_jS5t3XipLv.png▾
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bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:30 PMright... playing with some css now - i
icy-zebra-52882
11/15/2021, 4:31 PMsorry to throw more issues at you lol - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:41 PMhmmm, so i can kinda get it to work but a) its not right and b) regardless it will need changes in core - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:41 PM(menu labels in haxeui core are hardcoded to be 100% :/ ) - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:41 PMyou'll have to leave it with me - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:42 PMmight need to create a layout for menus, which id rather not do - i
icy-zebra-52882
11/15/2021, 4:54 PMit's not a particularly important thing tbh, I just wondered why it felt different than OS native menus and thought of that - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:55 PMyeah, ill have a think about it... the menus labels shouldnt be hardcoded (in code) to be 100% anyway... thats certainly wrong - that should be a style - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:56 PMand when ill clear that up ill have a play with creating a set of styles you can apply to (hopefully) allow you to have no wrapping - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/15/2021, 4:57 PMbut id rather do it with css than creating a whole new layout for menu / items - which seems overkill - if the css cant do it... ... well, it probably should - o
orange-van-60470
11/17/2021, 11:05 AM@User was thinking about your kha textfield implementation taking a quick look... it seems to be mono spaced letters? https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-kha/blob/master/haxe/ui/backend/kha/TextField.hx#L317 - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/17/2021, 11:06 AM
is a kha font function that returns the length of the string iircfont.widthOfCharacters - o
orange-van-60470
11/17/2021, 11:06 AMReally a generic solution based on letters should allow for differently spacing... hard yep but neeeded - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/17/2021, 11:06 AMits not restricted to monospaced fonts - o
orange-van-60470
11/17/2021, 11:07 AMoh is line actual letters.. - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/17/2021, 11:07 AMyeah, its a string containing the chars for that line - o
orange-van-60470
11/17/2021, 11:08 AMreally going back to say parsing TTF for instance https://github.com/cambiata/HxTrueType - o
orange-van-60470
11/17/2021, 11:09 AMor I am not really sure much on font layout with bitmap font formats - o
orange-van-60470
11/17/2021, 11:10 AMbut generic approach 'polyfill', needs to work more with font structures and not rely on the framework for this?