alt Hacker NewsI have often thought layouts should be done by a constraint solver. Then there could be libraries that help simplify specifying a layout, which feed constraints to the solver.
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hansvm • yesterday at 12:32 AM
I've done that for desktop apps before. You have to be careful with the effects of sub-pixel rendering and whatnot if your math is continuous, but it's a viable path that I quite like.
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jacobp100 • yesterday at 11:42 AM
iOS used to do this using the Cassowary constraint solver pre-SwiftUI. It’s the worst thing to work with. So much code turning on and off constraints, dynamically adding constraints when you have new views. And that’s before you get into conflicts
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