Refactoring Widgets names

[aberba]

So upon browsing through the api docs and could find a text input. Its appears its called EditLine by looking through code samples. I remember dlangui had some these weird names but you'd probably agree we now commonly refer to them as TextInput, TextEntry, TextBox, etc in mainstream UI.

Have you thought about changing some of the names to better fit familiar terms?

[dayllenger]

Yes, text fields certainly should be renamed. If you encounter other unintuitive names, write them here, I'll change some of them.

[aberba]

Oh ok. Will do that and get back to you

[aberba]

Here are some names you might consider

platform.enterMessageLoop() -> platform.runMessageLoop();

TabWidget -> Tab
EditLine -> TextInput
EditBox -> TextArea
CanvasWidget -> Canvas
ImageWidget -> Image // cus its already under the Widgets module. 

Those are some few suggestions now. Will add more when I encounter any.

As is stands, the api is quite clean, reading from the examples dir.

[dayllenger]

Ok, so I've done:

platform.enterMessageLoop() -> platform.runEventLoop();

TabWidget -> Tabs
EditLine -> TextField   // as in Flutter, MaterialUI, SwiftUI, UIKit, JavaFX...
EditBox -> TextArea
CanvasWidget -> Canvas

Image is a reserved name for lower-level API for now. I haven't decided yet where I will use it.

[aberba]

Great. Thanks.

Also wanted to know if the UI is reactive like flutter or react. It didn't seem so just by looking at the code. If not, do you think it'll be an interesting thing to do or you'd recommend a third-party lib like rx-d

[dayllenger]

Yes, it is. Old widgets are now called "elements", and new widgets work upon them, somewhat like react components or flutter widgets. I still have to port about half of old widgets onto new system.

[aberba]

Nice.

[aberba]

Why is beam ui not in the dub repository already?

[dayllenger]

Because I made major API reconstructions in the past and I still need to do some more. Coming soon...

[aberba]

What do you think remains to be done to have a beta version of some kind out?

[dayllenger]

Hi. I was super busy last two months, now a little less busy, slowly working for release.

I need to do these things:

• popups and dialogs - they don't really work right now
• virtualized lists/grids - like in react-window, but maybe even simpler
• CSS font selection algorithm and @font-face - critical for CJK, emoji, icon fonts, any fancy characters
• some very simple UI inspector
• media queries
• and some means to render UI to a texture

[aberba]

Glad you're back.