Slate

Great Overview Doc:
The Slate UI Framework https://de45xmedrsdbp.cloudfront.net/Resources/files/slateTutorials_westcoast-1963123470.pdf

  • Immediate mode with rare use of coarse-grained cache invalidation (e.g. Blueprint graph editor caches layout of all the nodes but as soon as there's a change, it rebuilds everything)

  • 2 pass approach:

  • 1st Pass Bottom Up: Determine each widget's size using CacheDesiredSize & ComputeDesiredSize

  • 2nd Pass Top Down: Layout

  • 3 widget types

  • Leaf: No children e.g. STextBox

  • Compound: Fixed number of children/slots e.g. Sbutton

  • Panel: Dynamic number of children e.g. SverticalPanel

  • SWidget Components

  • ComputeDesiredSize()

  • ArrangeChildren()

  • OnPaint()

  • EventHandlers

  • SLATE_ARGUMENT similar to SLATE_ATTRIBUTE, except it can only contain value