Creating views

There are multipe ways of creating a view for a certain control. They all have in common that the resulting type is IView or IView<'t>.
Creating views for common controls
FuncUI provides functions for creating standard avalonia controls. The create function always follows the same pattern.

internal - signature
module Button =
    val create: attrs: IAttr<'control> list -> IView<'control>
user code
Button.create [
    // view attributes
]
The create function is always found on the module named the same as the Avalonia control.
So the create function for a TextBlock is TextBlock.create, for a StackPanel it's StackPanel.create and so on. 
Creating views for custom controls
Even without creating bindings for a control you can create and embedd it in a view. 
View.createGeneric<MyCustomControl> [
    // view attributes
]
Passing constructor arguments
Sometimes controls dont have a unit constructor and need constructor arguments. Here is how you  can pass them.
[
    // view attributes
]
|> View.createGeneric<MyCustomControl> 
|> View.withConstructorArgs [| "constructorArg1" :> obj; "constructorArg2" :> obj |]
    
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