Feathers UI

About

• UI framework for OpenFL
• Made by the orginal Feathers author
• Good code quality, good documentation
• Works fine with our OpenFL

Contents

• Deferred update mechanism
• Size measurements mechanism
• Layouting mechanism
• Skinning mechanism
• Standard UI components

Deferred updates

• Similar to Flex UI
• IValidating/ValidatingSprite
• ValidationQueue
• Invalidation flags, update

Size measurement

• MeasureSprite
• min/max width/height
• explicit settings, calculation

Layouting

• LayoutGroup
• ILayout
• HorizontalLayout/VerticalLayout
• AnchorLayout
• and more

Skinning

• FeathersControl
• Skins are DisplayObjects
• Themes - mechanism for applying styles
• Variants - kinda like CSS class names

UI components

• Button/Label/TextInput/etc.
• Panel/Header
• TabNavigator/PageNavigator/etc.
• ListView/GridView
• ScrollContainer/(V|H)ScrollBar
• Skinnable enough?