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Better way to initialize default values #183

Open tesseralis opened 2 years ago

tesseralis commented 2 years ago

css.gui uses a lot of complex data structures to represent complex properties like background, gradients, etc. Right now, when initializing these complex editors, the user must provide a valid initial value, which can get quite complex. To alleviate this, I can think of two interrelated ideas:

When the user uses a complex input (e.g. <Inputs.Background />, a valid default style should be initialized
The user should be able to specify initial values using pure css (e.g. box-shadow: 1px 2px 3px 4px black) which will be parsed to css.gui's internal spec

mrmrs commented 2 years ago

@tesseralis love both of the ideas. Is there any reason why all inputs shouldn't have a default value when initialized?