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Templates / Slots replacement / ideas

Discussion in 'UI Toolkit' started by PassivePicasso, Nov 21, 2018.

  1. PassivePicasso

    PassivePicasso

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    I've seen that Templates and Slots are changing and so we should avoid them, but I'm curious what is going to replace the system?

    I ask because a system that I've made myself in Unity with VisualElements, inspired by XAML, was to setup a sub-type of VisualElement which can be provided a Type via UXML.
    This sub-type does a look up to find any Templates that have been mapped to the type and loads that template automatically.

    I'm hoping to see something like this built-in, I find it a lot faster/easier to iterate on and I'm sure many others do to.
    If not can we get some idea of where the replacement system is going?
     
    PassivePicasso, Nov 21, 2018
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  2. uDamian

    uDamian

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    Slots will come back, just in a slightly different form. We just didn't think the current Slots API was ready and didn't want to break the API post-release. We are trying to better match the web standards around slots and the shadow vs. light tree separations.
     
    uDamian, Nov 22, 2018
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    uDamian, Nov 27, 2018
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  4. PassivePicasso

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    Oh thats superb, thats very useful and will make how I want to extend this a lot easier!
    Thanks for pointing that out, been running on the source for so long I stopped checking the documentation.
     
    PassivePicasso, Nov 28, 2018
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