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# haxe-ui
  • b
    its hard to say really, my crappy lack of flixel know how doesnt put me in a great position to actually help
  • b
    i guess at some point im going to need to put a week or two into a deep dive of flixel, but time is always an issue...
  • b
    making themes is fun 😄
  • b
    Only if you are any good at it. :P That looks nice though.
  • b
    yeah... i created the hackiest tool to help me 😄
  • b
    ... it breaks all the time... but gets the job done... better than trying to "count pixels" which takes me ages and ages and i end up getting really annoyed
  • b
    Good tools are important.
  • b
    yeah, im not really sure i would consider this "good" 😉
  • b
    They are usually hacky. No problem there, it's just a tool. 😃
  • b
    i think it falls under the category of "functional... ... ... barely", heh heh
  • b
    That's how things start, then they evolve if they are useful. 😃
  • b
    there's even a fancy acronym for it 😄
  • b
    MVP
  • b
    yeah, thats actually how this started... with just the blue boxes and "trace" to get the rects out in the haxeui css format... then added a few bits here and there, etc
  • b
    ^^ too much fun...
  • q
    Paraphrasing: "Creators need a direct link to their creations [...] Now, the good news is that this scaffolding is easy. We can build it very nearly on a moment's notice. The bad news is it tends to be shaky and has to be built around what it's for, so it breaks easily and isn't very reusable [...] But as I said, it forms those connections that creators so desperately need, and it's more in the way of thinking about how we interact with that than it is about how we try to write code itself." ~worrydream, I believe.
  • q
    Speaking of why good UI layout tools are import-oh, and that sound means we're out of time!
  • b
    If I'm not doing anything this weekend, the flixel backend might come up
  • b
    Either that or something that I broke in openfl text layout
  • b
    My current project uses a lot of input text, which there's 0 reason to use flixel for, so I've been doing more openfl work than flixel
  • h
    could anyone sum up the current status of the flixel backend for haxeui? im thinking the stack might fit really well for a project but im aware there are a lot of changes underway for all this stuff. should i wait on using haxeui?
  • b
    There’s a branch where all dev work is being done. If you need something prioritized, I can work on it for the flixel backend. Most of the changes are internal and not to the API or workflow
  • b
    @hundreds-dentist-88554 I do want to restructure the flixel backend, but you would only notice as a bug fix
  • b
    Progress for the flixel backend, OpenFL text layout, and my own projects is determined by if my friends force me out of my room that weekend or not 😅
  • h
    ah cool, so it sounds like its good to use :) would you recommend using the 
    master
    branch or the 
    new-component-method
    branch of the flixel repo?
  • a
    I think the new-component-method is the default recommended
  • b
    Yeah master doesn’t work
  • b
    @hundreds-dentist-88554 - yeah, you need to use new-comp branch... but next week im going to change that and master will be overwritten and a new haxelib 1.0.0 release
  • h
    got it working fairly quick last night 👍 liking it so far!
  • q
    😮
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