iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 b0f9f046da Decide reuse on the box a widget drew against, in pixels
Two holes the random trees found, both of which kept a wrapping text shaped
for a width it no longer had.

**A region is a fraction of a slot's box, so an unchanged region is not an
unchanged box.** `try_reuse` compared regions, and a child drawn at
`UiRegion::FULL` of a slot whose box had just halved compared equal to
itself and was reused without being descended into. `ActiveData` now keeps
the pixel size of the box it drew against and the comparison is against
that, which is the question that was being asked all along and is right
through a slot change and an output resize alike.

**A size the parent learnt by drawing the child is an answer for that box
only.** The walk looking for what cannot survive a length change skipped a
child whose own box was a fixed width -- correctly, its box does not change
-- but that width was what the child reported when the span drew it in the
span's box, and the span's box did change. So a child whose size the widget
read is redrawn unless it declares an exact `size_hint` for the changed
axis, which is the one case the parent did not have to draw it to know.

The cost is that a size-reading container gives up its reuse when its box
changes length, which is every span, so `OnResize::Scale` now earns its
keep on moves and on subtrees whose sizes nobody read rather than on every
stretch. Correct first; `replace_cost` still measures the case the chain was
built for.

`tests/generated.rs` is what found both and what says they are fixed: 90 of
90 warm trees now land where a cold build does, against 83 before this
commit and 83 on `db1751f`. The ignored sweep agrees over 300 checks on 100
seeds.

`a_fixed_length_child_is_not_redrawn_when_the_box_around_it_grows` became
`a_declared_length_...`: the child now says its width, since a width the
span measured is not one it may keep.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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iris

My experimental attempt at a rust ui library (also my first ui library).

It's currently designed around using retained data structures (widgets), rather than diffing generated trees from data like xilem or iced. This is an experiment and I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not.

Examples are in examples, eg. cargo run --example tabs.

Goals, in general order:

  1. does what I want it to (text, images, video, animations)
  2. very easy to use ignoring ergonomic ref counting
  3. reasonably fast / efficient (a lot faster than electron, save battery life, try to beat iced and xilem)

dev details

not targeting web rn cause wanna use actual nice gpu features & entire point of this is to make desktop apps / not need a web browser

general ideas trynna use rn / experiment with:

  • retained mode
  • specifically designed around wgpu so there's no translation
  • postfix functions for most things to prevent unreadable indentation (going very well)
  • events can be done directly where you draw the widgets
  • almost no macros in user code & actual LSP typechecking (variadic generics if you can hear me please save us)
  • relative anchor + absolute offset coord system (+ "rest" / leftover during widget layout)
  • single threaded ui & pass context around to make non async usage straightforward (pretty unsure about this)
  • widgets store outside of the actual rendering so they can be moved around and swapped easily (unsure about this but seems to work good for now)

under heavy initial development so not gonna try to explain status, maybe check TODO for that; sizable chance it gets a rewrite once I know everything I need and what seems to work best

it's called iris because it's the structure around what you actually want to display and colorful

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