Removed hover on guecs::UI::mouse and now use a generic 16 bit modifier bitset. Also finally fixed Clickable so it just a simple callback with only the modifiers.

demos/calc.cpp

@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ struct CalculatorUI {
         $gui.set<guecs::Text>(id, { label });
         wchar_t op = label[0];
         $gui.set<guecs::Clickable>(id, {
-            [&, op](auto, auto) { handle_button(op); }
-            });
+            [&, op](auto) { handle_button(op); }
+        });
       }
     }
 
@@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ struct CalculatorUI {
     // $gui.debug_layout(window);
   }
 
-  void mouse(float x, float y, bool hover) {
-    $gui.mouse(x, y, hover);
+  void mouse(float x, float y, guecs::Modifiers mods) {
+    $gui.mouse(x, y, mods);
   }
 
   void handle_button(wchar_t op) {

demos/clicker_game.cpp

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ struct ClickerUI {
         $gui.set<guecs::Effect>(id, {});
         $gui.set<guecs::Icon>(id, { "clicker_treat_bone" });
         $gui.set<guecs::Clickable>(id, {
-            [&](auto, auto) { handle_button(Event::A_BUTTON); }
+            [&](auto) { handle_button(Event::A_BUTTON); }
             });
       }
     }
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ struct ClickerUI {
     $gui.set<guecs::Sprite>($clicker, {"clicker_the_dog"});
     $gui.set<guecs::Sound>($clicker, {"clicker_bark"});
     $gui.set<guecs::Clickable>($clicker, {
-        [&](auto, auto) { handle_button(Event::CLICKER); }
+        [&](auto) { handle_button(Event::CLICKER); }
         });
 
     // custom components need to be initialized manually
@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ struct ClickerUI {
     // $gui.debug_layout(window);
   }
 
-  void mouse(float x, float y, bool hover) {
-    $gui.mouse(x, y, hover);
+  void mouse(float x, float y, guecs::Modifiers mods) {
+    $gui.mouse(x, y, mods);
   }
 
   void handle_button(Event ev) {

include/guecs/ui.hpp

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include "guecs/theme.hpp"
 #include "guecs/sfml/components.hpp"
 #include <cassert>
+#include <bitset>
 
 namespace guecs {
   using std::shared_ptr, std::wstring, std::string;
@@ -24,22 +25,25 @@ namespace guecs {
       std::queue<size_t> free_indices;
     };
 
+  enum class ModBit {
+    hover=0,
+    left=1,
+    right=2
+  };
+
+  using Modifiers = std::bitset<16>;
+
   struct Clickable {
     /* This is actually called by UI::mouse and passed the entity ID of the
      * button pressed so you can interact with it in the event handler.
      */
-    std::function<void(Entity ent, std::any data)> action;
-  };
-
-  struct ActionData {
-    std::any data;
+    std::function<void(Modifiers mods)> action;
   };
 
   struct CellName {
     string name;
   };
 
-
   class UI {
     public:
       Entity MAIN = 0;
@@ -69,9 +73,8 @@ namespace guecs {
 
       void init();
       void render(sf::RenderWindow& window);
-      bool mouse(float x, float y, bool hover);
-      void click_on(const string& name, bool required=false);
-      void click_on(Entity slot_id);
+      bool mouse(float x, float y, Modifiers mods);
+      void click_on(Entity slot_id, Modifiers mods);
       void debug_layout(sf::RenderWindow& window);
 
       Entity entity() { return ++entity_count; }

meson.build

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # HEY BUG: when you have a . spec in a LEL it doesn't work on text
 
 project('lel-guecs', 'cpp',
-  version: '0.5.0',
+  version: '0.6.0',
   default_options: [
     'cpp_std=c++20',
     'cpp_args=-D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG=1 -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG_PEDANTIC=1',

src/guecs/ui.cpp

@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ namespace guecs {
     });
   }
 
-  bool UI::mouse(float x, float y, bool hover) {
+  bool UI::mouse(float x, float y, Modifiers mods) {
     int action_count = 0;
-    // BUG: Is Parser::hit useful?
+    bool hover = mods.test(size_t(ModBit::hover));
 
     query<lel::Cell>([&](auto ent, auto& cell) {
       if((x >= cell.x && x <= cell.x + cell.w) &&
@@ -169,11 +169,11 @@ namespace guecs {
 
         if(hover) return;
 
-        click_on(ent);
+        click_on(ent, mods);
 
         action_count++;
       } else {
-        do_if<Effect>(ent, [hover](auto& effect) {
+        do_if<Effect>(ent, [](auto& effect) {
           effect.stop();
         });
 
@@ -220,25 +220,10 @@ namespace guecs {
     }
   }
 
-  void UI::click_on(const string& name, bool required) {
-    auto ent = entity(name);
-
-    if(required) {
-      assert(has<Clickable>(ent) &&
-          "click_on required '{}' to exist but it doesn't");
-    }
-
-    click_on(ent);
-  }
-
-  void UI::click_on(Entity ent) {
-    if(auto clicked = get_if<Clickable>(ent)) {
-      if(auto action_data = get_if<ActionData>(ent)) {
-        clicked->action(ent, action_data->data);
-      } else {
-        clicked->action(ent, {});
-      }
-    }
+  void UI::click_on(Entity gui_id, Modifiers mods) {
+    if(auto to_click = get_if<Clickable>(gui_id)) {
+      to_click->action(mods);
+    };
   }
 
   wstring to_wstring(const string& str) {