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Small, and disjoint from #12 — this touches `task.rs`, `harness.rs` and `render_state.rs`, none of which #12 goes near. `Tasks` held an `Arc<Window>` only to call `request_redraw` when a task finished, which made the task queue, and so `DefaultRsc`, impossible to build without a window. It now takes an `Arc<dyn WakeTaskQueue>`, and `Window` implements it. Waking also moves from *the task ended* to *an update was sent*, which is when there is actually something for the host to apply. A task that keeps running after sending one no longer holds it until it finishes, and a task that sends none no longer asks for a frame nothing needs. `iris::harness` is what that buys. `UiRenderState` already does layout, hit testing and primitive building with no surface, so a test can build a tree, run frames, move a pointer and read back where widgets landed. `tests/harness.rs` covers span layout, resize relayout, press routing, hover start and end, wheel scrolling with its clamp, and a task update reaching the tree. None of them could be written before, since the only way into layout was a window. It does not draw. A claim about pixels still needs a real surface — I checked this one against the rig rather than asserting it: `examples/task` under headless sway, centre pixel `ff0000` before the click and `0000ff` after, so the windowed path still applies task updates under the new wake. The only core change is `UiRenderState::output_size()`, so that a host reading back the size it set does not have to keep a second copy. --------- Co-authored-by: iris <2+iris@noreply.localhost> Reviewed-on: iris/iris#15 Reviewed-by: iris <2+iris@noreply.localhost> Co-authored-by: AIris <4+iris-ai@noreply.localhost>
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:
- does what I want it to (text, images, video, animations)
- very easy to use ignoring ergonomic ref counting
- 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