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0 pointszackbrown3y ago0 comments

Pax's Android chassis isn't built yet — but a Pax `<Button>` will render an actual native Android button to a layer on top of a separate canvas layer where vector drawing occurs.

That native Android button will be affine-transformed, clipped, and occluded so that the two layers together act as a single coherent screen, and the developer can simply position / transform / layout that `<Button>` alongside, on top of, or underneath virtual / drawn elements as if they were on the same canvas.

This "dual layer" approach is already implemented for Pax's `<Text>` element on macOS (native SwiftUI `Text`) and Web (native `<div>` + HTML text) — see: https://docs.pax-lang.org/intro-example.html

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zamadatix3y ago

This could be very interesting, I'll have to keep an eye on the development. Thanks!

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0 pointszackbrown3y ago0 comments

Pax's Android chassis isn't built yet — but a Pax `<Button>` will render an actual native Android button to a layer on top of a separate canvas layer where vector drawing occurs.