Does RmlUI have plans to support dotte/dashed borders style?

[Shen9ke]

As title, does RmlUi have plans to support dotte/dashed borders style?
If not, how can I implement this simply?

[mikke89]

We don't really have any plans for that, I haven't actually seen any requests for that before. Do you have some specific use cases in mind? To me, it feels like an inflexible tool from the old parts of the internet. We have decorator support such as ninepatch which in my opinion handles these sorts of designs in a much more flexible way. But perhaps it can be useful on some occasions.

To implement this, you can start with our ElementBackgroundBorder class and our MeshUtilities which generate the geometry for the border. Then you would also need to add support for parsing the property. For this, you can start with the StylesheetSpecification, and work from there.

[Shen9ke]

As I mentioned in another issue, I am attempting to develop a rich text editor using RmlUi. I believe it is necessary to provide users with some dashed border controls or styles for article layout or beautification, such as the dashed border table, the selected state of a control, or other dashed border applications UI as show bleow. Can this be achieved well solely with ninePatch? Forgive me for not having tried it yet.

Perhaps it would be better to follow your advice and use custom elements, with MeshUtilities to generate the geometry for the border.

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