Trying haxeui-hxwidgets

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Yup, hxWidgets is independent of haxeui anything. There are two layers:

  • wx.widgets.* (ie, wx.widgets.Button) - these are just externs for haxe (hxcpp) for wxWidgets and can be used as is - but working with externs, esp. c++ externs can be… … difficult.

  • hx.widgets.* (ie hx.widgets.Button) - these are nice haxe wrappers for the externs so you can just do new Button(...) and be done with it (and manages all the pointers etc). They also make things a little more “haxey” in the sense you have myButton.bitmap = ... rather than the traditional wx way of myButton.setBitmap(...)

As for people using hxWidgets over haxeui-hxwidgets, i honestly have no idea. I do think there are some for sure - just no idea how many.

Main “problem” with just using hxWidgets is you are now locked into wxWidgets which is certainly the main goal of haxeui: no framework lock in… well, except haxeui ofc! :smiley: