How do I connect a button click to my code?

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Theres a few different ways, depending on how you are using haxeui. The way you are using it above your only real option is:

var button = main.findComponent("button1", Button);
button.onClick = function(e) { ... };
button.registerEvent(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(e) { ... });

However, if you were using custom components and build macros things get much better:

@:build(haxe.ui.macros.ComponentMacros.build("assets/main.xml"))
class MainView extends Component {
    @:bind(button1, MouseEvent.CLICK)
    function onButton1(e) {
        button2.text = "clicked"; // note: all named components are now correctly typed member vars
    }
}

using this class in Main.hx you just remove the var main:Component = ComponentMacros.buildComponent("assets/main.xml"); and replace with var main = new MainView();

Hope that helps

Cheers,
Ian

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