Whoever came up with Slate is a genius.

General Feedback & Requests
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I just wanted to take a moment and give some kudos to the people who architect Slate.

I’ve been writing UIs / Tools for a long time now and, after using it for almost 2 years, Slate is probably my favorite framework to work in. The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you wrap your head around the syntax - it becomes super fast to generate to new widgets/windows/editors while being remaining extensible and performant. Not to mention the complexity of getting this all to work within the normal syntax/operators of C.

Seriously, amazing job. Keep up the good work!

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At first I liked Scaleform way more, but after being “forced” to use Slate some year ago, I’ve learned to like it.

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Thanks for the kind words. I’ve shared this with our engineers. They appreciate it. :slight_smile:

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If you ask the Scaleform guys about what they think about Scaleform; they’ll usually tell you they are surprised anyone is using it given its runtime performance characteristics. :slight_smile: But, artists know flash so everyone uses it. As an engineer, it makes no sense to me to run an entire HUD through a (very slow) virtual machine to simply animate sprites and do tweens. Slate/UMG seems to fix this (hopefully, we’ll see if the art world takes to it).

Thanks Stephen. UI architecture is a thankless job, but it’s very much appreciated.

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+1 here, Slate is a great system!