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haxeui-flixel is the Flixel backend for HaxeUI.
haxeui-flixel comes with a specialised version of the default theme that mainly uses slice-9 bitmaps. This is partially because flixel is optimised to use bitmpas and partially because it fits with already existing flixel UI libraries and coomponents - plus the retro look is pretty cool!
haxeui-flixel has a dependency to haxeui-core, and so that too must be installed. Once haxeui-core is installed, haxeui-flixel can be installed using:
haxelib install haxeui-flixelHaxeFlixel itself is built ontop of OpenFL and is therefore a depenancy that must be installed and setup, this can be done via haxelib using the following commands:
haxelib install openfl
haxelib run openfl setupOnce OpenFL is installed and setup installing HaxeFlixel can be done with the following commands:
haxelib install flixel
haxelib run lime setup flixelThe simplest method to create a new Flixel application that is HaxeUI ready is to use the HaxeUI command line tools. These tools will allow you to start a new project rapidly with HaxeUI support baked in. To create a new skeleton application using haxeui-flixel create a new folder and use the following command:
haxelib run haxeui-core create flixelIf however you already have an existing application, then incorporating HaxeUI into that application is straightforward:
Initialising the toolkit requires you to add this single line somewhere before you start to actually use HaxeUI in your application:
Toolkit.init();Once the toolkit is initialised you can add components using the methods specified here.
As well as using the generic Screen.instance.addComponent, since HaxeUI components in haxeui-flixel extend from flixel.group.FlxSpriteGroup it is also possible to add components directly to any other Flixel sprite / state (eg: FlxState::add).
