Laid out how I want the control panel to look but can't render the slides there until I get the parser nicer.

control.cpp

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 ControlUI::ControlUI(sf::RenderWindow& presenter) :
     $presenter(presenter)
 {
+
   $gui.position(0, 0, CONTROL_WIDTH, CONTROL_HEIGHT);
   $gui.layout(
       "[status|=%(100,100)current]"
@@ -31,11 +32,9 @@ void ControlUI::init() {
 
   auto current = $gui.entity("current");
   $gui.set<guecs::Text>(current, {L"Current Slide"});
-  $gui.set<guecs::Rectangle>(current, {});
 
   auto next = $gui.entity("next");
   $gui.set<guecs::Text>(next, {L"Next Slide"});
-  $gui.set<guecs::Rectangle>(next, {});
 
   $gui.init();
 
@@ -52,8 +51,8 @@ void ControlUI::render(sf::RenderWindow& window) {
 
   $status->update(fmt::format(L"pos={},{}\nsize={},{}",
         pos.x, pos.y, size.x, size.y));
-
   window.clear();
+
   $gui.render(window);
 }
 

control.hpp

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 #include "guecs/sfml/components.hpp"
 #include "guecs/ui.hpp"
+#include "slides.hpp"
 
 struct ControlUI {
   guecs::UI $gui;

slides.cpp

@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ void SlidesUI::show_slide() {
 
 void SlidesUI::render(sf::RenderWindow& window) {
   $gui.render(window);
-
   auto& slide = current();
   slide.render(window);
 

slides.hpp

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ struct Slide {
   bool $initialized = false;
 
   Slide(const std::string& title, const std::string& content, nlohmann::json& config);
+
+  Slide() {}
+
   void init(lel::Cell& cell);
   void render(sf::RenderWindow& window);
 };