rreusser / controls-gui

🎚🎛 A GUI for managing state

controls-gui

A GUI for managing state

Installation

npm install -S controls-gui

Stability

This library should still be considered experimental. It will definitely obey semantic versioning, but it will hopefully increment quickly as I use it and adapt it to real-world needs.

Introduction

Created to start addressing the challenges and common patterns observed in similar projects like control-panel and dat.gui. Heavily inspired by the proxy-based interface proposed by Matt DesLauriers—exept with out actual proxies for the sake of compatibility.

See also

• controls-state

License

© 2019 Ricky Reusser. MIT License.

controls-gui's Issues

Build or integrate non-system color picker

Can feature detect color picker by setting the field type to color and then checking to see if it's actually color. But then we gotta pull in a color picker or build one.

Arrays fed into Preact.h need keys

I think this is the issue. If you toggle the visibility and use it with fancy features like tabs, you can manage to confuse preact. I think the solution is that keys would help it know when to fully tear down a DOM tree and recreate it.

Checkboxes not touchable

Touch seems to toggle checkboxes but does not trigger update events so that preact just reverts the checkbox state when other events do trigger preact updates.

Add tooltips

Maybe add tooltips so that you can provide some additional explanation about what a control field does. How would that work on mobile though? Is that a good pattern or does that hide things too much?