Comment by samstave | Hacker News Reader

Comment by samstave | Hacker News Reader

This looks great!

Ill definately be building something with this. Il give more detailed feedback after use - but from vid:

Have you used SPLINE at all and looked at their events menu system for anims in Spline (which BTW you should take a look at how to integrate and work with the Spline folks as their app would be an indeal way to make interactive 3d UI/X on this as well...

But also - (il test this,) but UI scaling for the windows to get them out of way given canvas, the ability to s=zoom a single element/page on the canvas?>

And the ability to float menu panels to a second screen? (I have a USb monitor on laptop, move all the menu panels to that usb monitor and have the canvas full screen laptop)

-Excited to try this out later today.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Spline3D/top/

Thanks for the notes! I'll look into spline.

I've never of a web app that lets you pull panels to a second screen. Sounds neat though. Is there a good reference?

You can use window.open to create a child window whose DOM is writable by the main thread of the parent window. You can then mount a React root in the child and go off to the races.

This issue with this strategy is usually over reliance on 3rd party code that assumes that globalThis.window is the only window, and event handlers don’t end up working or something.

If you are using good libraries that really understand the DOM (React itself handles this well) or you write things yourself, it’s a bit of bother to add “target window” as a parameter to various functions that were previously using the global but quite doable.

I built an electron app that has one “root” window that is hidden that I use to spawn child windows without needing to load an entire new web page & instance of the JS bundle into each window. I used Tldraw and had to do some patch-package to fix global window assumptions in a few places.

Here’s my code: https://github.com/justjake/tlshot/blob/main/src/renderer/ed...

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