Just ruminating: If I wanted to make an electron based HTML game "Player", i.e. a wrapper around a game, for dev UI and such. On top of the main reason – accessing file system directly – I would like to be able to quickly hack around adding UI for whatever the game might need.
Issue is, I am not sure what tech to use for something like that. Immediate mode and HTML don't seem to go hand in hand, and I've never really found any library I've had good experience making UI with. Not counting coconut, as that's a mixed bag and not suited for hacking around.
Any ideas? :)
Issue is, I am not sure what tech to use for something like that. Immediate mode and HTML don't seem to go hand in hand, and I've never really found any library I've had good experience making UI with. Not counting coconut, as that's a mixed bag and not suited for hacking around.
Any ideas? :)
depends a lot on what you need ^^
I find html+css very comfortable for creating UIs, but that's just me ^^
With Haxe macro magic it gets pretty doable to just tag some variable and have it show up on a graph somewhere.
It's just that whenever I tried, I ended up spending so much time on the GUI part that I never used it in another project. I guess I'm just looking at a new approach, or some pattern for all this.
I recently made an inspector for our project on Docler ... all the data is in coconut models so it was a matter of picking up all of them, putting them in a list and if you select one go through its states and make an input field for each ^^
in any case, if the state is complex, it's hard to represent it in a simple UI solution ^^
Having the data in coconut models is definitely flexible enough, though it does add some build time. And I'm not that good at coconut, which means I might get stuck.
I'm looking for generic solutions, but I guess the problem is too big to just find an ideal solution without failing a few times.
