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# haxe-ui
  • c
    python's documentation is amazing, at least for the standard library
  • b
    haxe's documentation is golden compared to haxeui's 😮
  • c
    luckily i have some actionscript experience, so stuff like syntax makes a lot of sense to me
  • c
    it is, yes, but it's still not great
  • b
    one day, ill take a week off, buy a bottle of scotch and write all the docs... could go verrrrry wrong though 😄
  • c
    heh
  • c
    if i understood how it worked, id be tempted to try
  • c
    i got annoyed enough with the lack of documentation on a thing a while ago that i started a project for it
  • c
    so i now have some experience documenting lua
  • c
    bad times
  • b
    yeah, i need to come up with a process... something automated too... the problem i find is that there is much that is undocumented that starting is a little overwhelming
  • c
    it wouldnt be so bad if there was a document explaining how the source code is laid out
  • b
    the semicolons keep getting me, despite the fact that I took a year of Java back in highschool
  • c
    right now, i have to search through maybe 2 or 3 different repos, hunt down the file i need and search for the functions that may or may not exist
  • c
    remembering which languages need and don't need semicolons is one of the most irritating programming things
  • c
    eventually you learn to switch after about 5 minutes of writing a language
  • b
    yeah, the haxeui-guides repo was a stab at that (https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-guides) but they are also mostly incomplete / empty :/
  • b
    by the way, when you do that, I'd like the ability to add things like text in the initialization argument,
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    haxe
var label = new haxe.ui.components.Label(text="Some text here");
  • b
    basically anything that could later be added via 
    label.x = value
  • b
    just to make the code look a little cleaner.
  • b
    so there are a couple of things here: 1) thats not valid haxe syntax (no named params lime that) and 2) ive specifically avoided constructor args purposely because they are messy, get out of hand and make xml processing harder
  • b
    oh, and they make macros a bitch too (and haxeui is macro heavy)
  • b
    ah
  • b
    its defo possible, if you have default values for all of them, but i also just dont think constructor args are good (generally)
  • b
    Is there a way I could set a sort of component class which already contains some preset values?
  • b
    i mean, you could always create a custom component / view based off of another
  • b
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    haxe
class MyButton extends Button {
    public function new() {
        super();
        this.width = 100;
        this.height = 100;
        this.text = "My Button";
    }
}
  • b
    and if you are talking about visuals, you could always use haxeui css
  • b
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    css
.button {
    background-color: red;
}
  • b
    constructor args definitely vary from one language to another. the use of constructor args is a lot more common in Python
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