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admin 8882078743 A text field that serves as an editor, a file chooser, ltk::files with callbacks, Text::fit, App::window_title, and a stack that keeps its children inside it
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A multiline text field was a box for a few lines: it wrapped its whole value by shaping each character alone on every frame, every click and every caret motion, so a file of some size made it crawl; it drew a tab as the font's glyph for it, had no scroll bar, no page keys and no way to number its lines, kept no record of the view it showed, so once the cursor had left the first screen it stayed on the last row and the arrows moved the text, and an app could neither colour its text, type a tab with Tab, give it a face of its own, ask it to copy, cut, paste or select, nor hear where its cursor was. Notes, the Eydos text editor, needs all of it, and every app that opens or saves the user's files needed a dialog of its own.
Speed. `Canvas::measure_char` measures a character's advance once per font and size and keeps it (`text_shaping::char_advance_cached`, emptied with the shaped lines), and `compute_visual_lines` keeps the last four layouts by the value's hash and length, the row width, the size and the face, so a value is wrapped again only when one of them changes, and drawing, hit testing and caret motion over the same value wrap it once.
The view. `TextEdit::draw` returns the view it showed, which the frame keeps in `text_scroll`, so the view moves only when the cursor leaves it, and by the least; a `TextCommand::Select` no longer resets it. `Window::shown` gives the lines as the last frame showed them, wherever the cursor went since, and a press, the wheel, the scroll bar and the page keys act on them: a press that gave a field the focus, which puts its cursor at the end, landed where the view would have gone to show that cursor, near the end of the text, instead of on the character pressed. The cursor a scroll keeps is taken back to the value's length as the view's is, so a scroll made with the cursor at its end sentinel holds instead of going back to the cursor at once.
Tabs. In a multiline field a tab reaches the next stop, every four digits' widths, as four monospace columns are (`theme::TAB_COLUMNS`, `text_edit/tabs.rs`), when it is drawn, selected, clicked and crossed with the arrows. `TextEdit::tab_text( text )` has Tab type `text` while the field has the focus instead of moving the focus on; Shift+Tab still moves it back and Ctrl+Tab still reaches the app.
The scroll bar. A field whose lines do not all fit shows a scroll bar along its right edge (`Window::scrollbar`): its thumb is held and dragged, or a press on its track brings the thumb there, by pointer or touch, without moving the cursor (`AppData::text_scrollbar_grab`, `handle_text_scrollbar_press`, `handle_text_scrollbar_drag`); the pointer over it is the arrow rather than the text cursor, and a long press that holds it no longer opens the Copy / Cut / Paste menu.
Page Up and Page Down move the cursor of a multiline field by the lines on screen but one, at the same height on screen, and the view with it, to the start or the end from the first or the last page (`cursor_visual_page`, `handle_cursor_page`); Shift extends the selection, and with Ctrl, or in any other widget, the keys still reach the app. A key without Ctrl that types no text, such as F3, was dropped while a text field had the focus; it now goes to `App::on_key_with_modifiers`, as it does with no field focused.
The text as an editor's. `TextEdit::highlights( Arc<Vec<TextHighlight>> )` draws runs of a multiline value, byte ranges in order, in colours of their own, what no run covers in the field's colour and a run off a character boundary left out. `TextEdit::font( face )` lays a multiline field's text out in a face of its own at the field's size: wrapping, drawing, the selection, the cursor, clicks, tab stops and the arrows all measure through one `TextFont`, the size and the face, which `text_input_geometry` now gives the runtime's paths where it gave them the size; `Canvas::measure_char_with_font` is `measure_char` in another face. `ltk::monospace_font()` finds a monospace face, DejaVu Sans Mono from the app's resources, which a page and an APK carry, else the first of the system's installed, loaded once. `TextEdit::line_numbers( true )` numbers the lines in a column at the field's left, in the monospace face when there is one, as wide as the number of the last line needs, a wrapped line numbered on its first row and the cursor's in the text colour while the field has the focus; the text starts right of the column alike when drawn and in every runtime path, since they all lay it out in the rect `gutter::text_rect` gives. `borderless()` now also drops a multiline field's background and border.
Talking to the field. `App::take_text_command` hands a field, by its `WidgetId`, a `TextCommand` after the next frame: `Copy`, `Cut`, `Paste` and `SelectAll` through the paths the keys take, and `Select { start, end }`, which focuses the field, selects the range with its ends taken back to the value and to its characters' starts, and scrolls to it. `Reveal { start, end }` does the same without moving the focus, as a search does while its own field keeps the keys, and a multiline field without the focus now shows its selection dimmed (`theme::selection_inactive`). `TextEdit::on_cursor( |at| … )` sends the cursor's byte offset once it is placed and whenever it moves or the value changes length (`report_text_cursors`, after every frame), as an editor's status bar showing the line needs.
A file chooser. `ltk::FileChooser` (`src/file_chooser/`) picks a file to open or a folder and a name to save one as, over `ltk::files`, alike natively and in a browser. The app holds it, puts its `view()` in its own and hands its `FileChooserMsg`s to `update()`, which returns `Chosen::Path` or `Chosen::Cancelled` once the user chose; `wrap` makes the app's message of the chooser's, so its listings reach it through the app's `ChannelSender`. It offers the home folder, the xdg-user-dirs folders that exist, the root and the folders mounted in a browser, with a press there to mount another; it lists folders first, the hidden entries left out, each with its type's icon, a file with its size and the date of its last access or change, sorted as Crate sorts, by name, last access or size, each key in a direction of its own (`Sort`, `SortKey`, `Directions`). `dir` starts elsewhere, `filter( &[ "text/*" ] )` shows only some types of files, `compact( true )` puts the places behind a button for a phone, `sort` starts in an order kept from `current_sort`, and `take_focus_request` gives the field to focus. Saving asks before replacing a file and can create a folder; its errors are in the user's words, and its strings in ltk's seven locales. `files::mounts()` gives the folders mounted in a browser as the desktop last said, which the web backend now keeps. `docs/widgets.md` describes it and `examples/file_chooser.rs` shows it, in `make examples`.
ltk::files::callback. The operations of `ltk::files` with a function in place of a message (`list`, `stat`, `read`, `read_range`, `write`, `create_dir`, `rename`, `remove`, `remove_all`, `copy`, `copy_all`, `mount` and `unmount`), for code with no run loop's `ChannelSender` to take one, such as Prompt's session daemon, which in a browser runs in the page beside the window. `done` is called on ltk's worker thread natively and on the page's thread in a browser.
Closing. An app that keeps its window open in `on_close_requested`, to ask whether to save, was not drawn again, so its question appeared only at the next event, such as a press. Every close request, from the compositor, the title bar's close button, back and the browser, now goes through `AppData::request_close`, which draws the view again when the app refused it.
`App::window_title`. The main window's title, read when the window is made, which the title bar, the task switcher and the dock show; by default the `app_id`. A `ShellMode::Window` app was titled "ltk" on Wayland, whatever the app, with no way to name it but the deprecated `window_config`; in a browser its title was its `app_id`, and is now this.
`Text::fit` and `Text::valign`. `fit()` draws a text at the largest size up to its own at which it fits the rect the layout gives it, on one line within its width and height or, with `wrap`, all its lines within its height, so a text whose length varies, such as a calculator's display, neither overflows a box the window sizes nor needs its size worked out from the window and its content; its preferred size is still the one at its own size. `valign( VAlign )` places the lines at the top, the centre or the bottom of the rect.
A stack keeps its children inside it. A child that `Stack` aligned to an edge or the centre took its preferred size even when that was larger than the stack, so one aligned to the bottom started above the stack's top and one aligned to the right left of its left edge, drawn over whatever was there. Each child's preferred size is now capped by the stack's, less its margin, before it is aligned; children placed with `push_placed` and the offsets of `push_translated` are as they were.
Tests cover Tab with and without `tab_text`, the text commands, `Reveal` leaving the focus alone, a highlight into a character, `on_cursor` reporting once, a refused close drawing again, a key that types nothing reaching the app from a field, tab stops, a click on a tab, the kept layouts, the scroll bar, a view kept while the cursor moves inside it and after a scroll with the cursor at its sentinel, a click landing on the view shown, the page keys, the width of the line numbers, the file chooser's listing, filters, names, user folders, sizes, sorting and its open, save and replace flows, `Text::fit` and a stack's aligned children. `CHANGELOG.md` and `docs/widgets.md` describe the changes.
2026-10-26 23:00:33 +01:00
admin 20dc21448e A browser backend: ltk runs on a page's canvas through WebGL2, on a core that builds for wasm32, and a surface's scale may be fractional
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ltk ran on Wayland and Android only. Running crustace and its apps in a browser needs, first, ltk apps running there; a window manager for the page is the next step. The runtime was already split from Wayland by the platform layer, so what kept it out of a browser was what the core and the runtime took from the operating system: calloop's epoll loop, EGL, a monotonic clock, a file system, threads and environment variables.
The core builds for wasm32-unknown-unknown. `ltk::ChannelSender` is ltk's own type instead of a re-export of calloop's `Sender`, with the same `send` and `Clone`, so apps that only send and clone it build unchanged. The runtime arms its timers and channels through `event_loop/sources.rs` instead of a calloop `LoopHandle`: calloop's natively, and in a browser a queue the backend runs, which takes the due timers out, runs them on `AppData` and hands them back, and does not arm again one removed meanwhile. calloop, khronos-egl and raw-window-handle are dependencies off wasm32 only, where `egl_context.rs`, `UiSurface::try_new_gles` and `from_current_gles_loader` and the native GL names of `BorrowedGlesTexture` are left out; `sub_canvas` clones the uniform locations, which are `Copy` natively and only `Clone` on wasm. The monotonic clock is `crate::time::Instant`, `web_time`'s on wasm32, where `chrono` takes its `wasmbind` feature; the one subtraction that could go below the clock's origin, a surface's first `last_draw`, saturates. Themes, fonts, keyboard layouts and images are read through `vfs.rs`, the file system natively and on wasm32 files held in memory, so a wallpaper or an `Image::from_path` is now decoded from the file's bytes and its format told from its contents rather than its extension. The text-scale watcher, which runs gsettings on a thread, is left out on wasm32, and the built-in keyboard takes its language from `platform::language()`, `LANG` or the page's. criterion is a dev-dependency off wasm32 only, since rayon does not build there.
The browser backend is the `web` feature, `platform/web/`, with wasm-bindgen, wasm-bindgen-futures, js-sys and web-sys. `build.rs` refuses it with another backend or for another target. A page's main thread must not block, so `ltk::run` sets the app up and returns, and the browser drives the loop: `AppData` lives in a closure a thread-local loop holds, which a `setTimeout` runs for messages, timers and page events and a `requestAnimationFrame` runs to draw. Event listeners and `ChannelSender::send` only queue and schedule, never touching `AppData`, so nothing they set off runs inside an iteration. The app draws on a canvas laid over the whole page, or the one `ltk::web::set_canvas` gives, through WebGL2 with the GLES canvas unchanged, its frame kept in its FBO, or without WebGL2 through `putImageData`. A lost context drops the GPU canvases and draws nothing until it is restored on a new `glow::Context`, so the glyph atlas and the caches of the old one are not reused. The main surface's logical size is the canvas's CSS size; the window's `resize` refits it, and on ltk's own canvas a hidden element padded by `env( safe-area-inset-* )` gives the insets. Input comes from Pointer Events, a mouse as the pointer and fingers and pens as touches, the wheel, in detents when it scrolls lines, and keys, whose keysym comes from `KeyboardEvent.key` and code from `.code` as the Linux input code Wayland reports; keys repeat on the browser's clock, AltGr types its character, and on macOS Command is Ctrl. ltk takes every key the browser lets a page have, and while fullscreen those `navigator.keyboard.lock()` adds in Chromium. Copies go to `navigator.clipboard.writeText`; a page reads the clipboard only from a `paste` event, so Ctrl+V is let through to the browser and held until its `paste` has put the text in `AppData::clipboard`, and a paste from the browser's menu comes with a Ctrl+V of its own. The cursor's shape is the canvas's CSS `cursor`. The built-in keyboard serves text where the page is used by touch. Panics go to the browser's console. When the app exits, the listeners are removed, the canvas receives an `ltk-exit` event and the app is dropped. The new `RunError::NoDocument` is returned where there is no page, as in a worker.
Resources are the tree an Android package carries. `scripts/web-assets.sh` builds it through `android-assets.sh`, and `ltk::web::load_resources( base ).await` fetches its `MANIFEST` and every file it lists, with the manifest's hash in their URLs so a changed tree is not served from the browser's cache, into memory under `/ltk`, which becomes the resource directory. The per-script fallback fonts are read through `resources::read_font`, so a path that does not exist is found by file name in the resource directory's `fonts/`, where a page bundles them.
A surface's scale may be fractional. `SurfaceState::scale_factor` is an `f32`, which `Platform::prepare_canvas`, `Presentation::scale` and the paint path take as it is; a surface's physical size is its logical size times the scale, rounded once, and `buffer_scale()` gives the whole number Wayland's buffer scale and regions need. Wayland and Android still set whole scales, so nothing changes there; the browser backend sets the page's `devicePixelRatio`, so the canvas holds the display's own pixels at any zoom. `App::on_scale_changed` keeps its `u32`, the scale rounded, and `App::on_resize` gives the exact physical size.
The fallback-theme banner placed its text as if `draw_text` took the top of the line rather than its baseline, so most of the text fell above the banner, out of the surface; it is now centred as the title bar's is.
Building. `make web-check` typechecks the backend. `make web-deps` installs Debian's std for wasm32 and wasm-bindgen-cli, whose version must be the one of the wasm-bindgen crate in `Cargo.lock`: the crate is pinned to 0.2.117, the last whose CLI builds with Debian's rustc 1.85, and since the lock the CLI was published with needs a newer rustc and `cargo install` ignores rust-version when it resolves, the CLI is built from its sources with a lock resolved for the rust-version it declares, into `target/tools`, where the Makefile finds it. `make web-assets` builds the resources with the in-tree default theme and the fallback fonts `WEB_FONTS` names. `examples/web_hello.rs`, a counter and a text field, and `web/index.html` are the smoke test: `make web-example` builds them into `target/web/` and `make web-serve` serves them. `make install` now copies `web/` into the registry. `README.md`, `docs/architecture.md` and `CHANGELOG.md` describe the backend, and `docs/cookbook.md` points to `ChannelSender`'s new home.
Not done. In a browser there are no overlays, secondary surfaces or subsurfaces, no dead keys or input methods, no accessibility tree and no primary selection, and a canvas that changes size while the window does not is not refitted. Pasting relies on the browser sending `paste` to a focused canvas, which Chrome and Firefox do. The page fetches its whole resource tree, about 7 MB, before the app starts. There are no tests for the browser backend, `Sources`' queue or `vfs.rs`'s in-memory files, and fractional scales may leave one-pixel artefacts where edges fall between pixels.
2026-10-19 20:20:12 +02:00
admin cacf871ddd An Android backend, a platform layer that keeps Wayland out of the runtime, the built-in keyboard for an app's own text input, and APKs packaged with Debian's own tools
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ltk only ran on a Wayland compositor: the runtime, the input handlers and the draw paths named smithay-client-toolkit's types throughout, so no other windowing system could be added without touching all of them. Prompt, the Eydos terminal, has to run on an Android phone, with its sessions and its sharing, and needs a toolkit that runs there.
The platform layer. Input reaches the runtime as platform-neutral events: `input/event.rs` defines `KeyInput`, `PointerInput` and `TouchInput`, and the pointer, touch and keyboard handlers take them through a few entry points (`pointer_input`, `touch_input`, `key_press`, `key_release`, `key_repeated`, `modifiers_changed`, `keyboard_enter`, `keyboard_leave`, `set_repeat_info`). The sctk handler implementations moved to `platform/wayland/input.rs`, which records the serials later requests need, resolves surfaces and translates. What the runtime asks of the windowing system (moving, resizing, minimising and fullscreening the window, a bare frame request, the cursor's shape, the input method, publishing the clipboard and the primary selection, preparing a canvas, presenting it and its damage) forms the `platform::Platform` trait, with its surface type as `Platform::Surface`. The protocol state moved from `AppData` into `platform::wayland::WaylandPlatform`, held as `AppData::platform`, and each surface's Wayland half (its kind, SHM pool, EGL window surface and what the compositor was last told) from `SurfaceState` into `WaylandSurfaceState`, held as `SurfaceState::platform`. The compositor, shell, seat and output handlers, the data device, the primary selection, the run loop, overlay and subsurface reconciliation, session management, output probing and window fitting moved from `event_loop/` to `platform/wayland/`. Drawing is split from presenting: `draw/paint.rs` paints a surface in full or under its dirty rects, the same for the software and GPU canvases, in place of the four near-identical paths of `draw/software.rs` and `draw/gles.rs`, and the backend presents it (`platform/wayland/present.rs`, which also took the opaque and input regions and `pick_shm_format`). The runtime is generic over the platform, `AppData<A, P: Platform = NativePlatform<A>>` and `SurfaceState<Msg, S = NativeSurface>`, resolved at compile time. The backend-neutral half of a loop iteration is `event_loop/step.rs` (`process_messages`, `draw_due`, `next_wakeup`, `before_draw`, `after_draw`), and `event_loop/setup.rs` builds the state and the event sources every backend has; the accessibility tree and its actions moved to `event_loop/a11y.rs`. `platform/mock.rs` is a platform that logs what is asked of it, and `event_loop/tests.rs` drives the runtime on it through input, update, painting and presentation. The behaviour on Wayland is unchanged, except that a frame whose presentation fails leaves the next one to repaint in full. `ltk::Keysym` now comes from `xkeysym`, the crate sctk re-exported it from, so it is the same type.
Features. `wayland`, on by default, brings the Wayland backend and its dependencies, now optional, AT-SPI2 accessibility among them. `android` brings android-activity 0.6, ndk 0.9 and jni 0.21. A new `build.rs` refuses both at once and sets `cfg( backend )` when one is on, which builds the runtime behind `run` and `try_run`. Without a backend only the runtime-free core builds: `UiSurface`, widgets, layout, theming and rendering.
The Android backend. `ltk::run` runs inside a NativeActivity once `android_main` has handed its `AndroidApp`, re-exported as `ltk::AndroidApp`, to the new `ltk::set_android_app`; without it `run` fails with `RunError::NoAndroidApp`. The first call in the process sends standard output and error, panics included, to logcat, sets `HOME` to the app's internal storage and, unless set, `SSL_CERT_DIR` to Android's CA certificates and `LANG` to the device's language, and unpacks the bundled resources; every call keeps the latest activity, since Android starts the next one in the same process. The backend draws through EGL on the activity's window, or in software into a locked window buffer, and sizes the main surface at the display's density in whole multiples of 160 dpi. Fingers and styluses become touches, a mouse the pointer, and key events keysyms and text through the device's character map. calloop's descriptor rides on the activity's `ALooper`, so the app's channel and timers keep working. Text is typed on ltk's own keyboard, since a NativeActivity gets only key events from the system's. Through JNI on the activity (`platform/android/java.rs`): copies go to `ClipboardManager` and its text is read back whenever the app gains the focus; back with nothing left to go back to minimises the app with `moveTaskToBack` or closes it, as `App::back_at_root` says, which the new `Platform::back_leaves` decides per backend; and the window's insets come from `getRootWindowInsets()` on Android 11 and later, the status bar and any cutout on top and only bars that take taps on the other edges, so there is no gap above the view nor below it in gesture navigation, and a bar of buttons still keeps its room; earlier releases fall back to the content rect. When the app's last surface closes, ltk calls `finishAndRemoveTask` and waits for the activity to be destroyed, since a second activity started in a process whose `android_main` has returned never came up; an app should end the process after `run` returns. `ltk::keep_running( Some( text ) )` starts a foreground service with `text` on an ongoing notification, so Android does not freeze the app once it leaves the screen, and `None` stops it.
Surface insets. `SurfaceState::insets` holds the logical pixels the system covers along each edge; the view is laid out inside them while the background fills the whole surface, and positions stay absolute, so hit testing is unchanged. The built-in keyboard is placed inside them too, above a bar of navigation buttons. On Wayland they stay zero.
Resources in a package. `ltk::set_resource_dir( dir )` names an app's own copy of ltk's resources and `ltk::resource_dir()` returns it, so an app also finds its own bundled files there. Its `themes/` is searched after the user's themes and before `/usr/share/ltk/themes`, its `keyboards/` before `/usr/share`, and a font a theme names by an absolute path that does not exist is read from its `fonts/` by file name, so a theme written against Debian's paths works unchanged. On Android `set_android_app` unpacks `assets/ltk/` into the internal storage and uses it as the resource directory; `assets/ltk/MANIFEST` lists the tree, since the asset manager cannot list subdirectories, and its first line, a hash of the contents, decides whether to unpack again. On Android the per-script fallback fonts come from `/system/fonts` and the primary face is the embedded Sora.
APKs. `scripts/android-assets.sh` builds that tree from installed themes, without their cursors, with the fonts each `theme.json` names and ltk's keyboard layouts. `scripts/android-apk.sh OUT.apk LIB.so PACKAGE LABEL [ASSETS_DIR]` packages an app built as a `cdylib` with Debian's aapt, zipalign and apksigner, with no Gradle and no SDK download: it writes the manifest, with the library loaded as `libmain.so`, optional permissions and a theme without an action bar, which the content rect would otherwise leave room for; links it against `android-framework-res`; adds the assets and the library; aligns and signs, creating a debug keystore when there is none. `ICON` takes an SVG, rasterised with `rsvg-convert` for every density, or a PNG. `KEEP_ALIVE=1` compiles `java/net/liberux/ltk/KeepAlive.java` with javac and `dx` from art-standalone against the platform 34 `android.jar`, against which aapt then links too, since Debian's framework-res predates the `specialUse` service type, and declares the service with `KEEP_ALIVE_USE` as its reason and the permissions it needs. `examples/android_hello.rs` is the smoke test: `make android-check` typechecks the backend with Debian's rustc, `rust-src` and NDK through `-Zbuild-std`, `make android-apk` and `make android-install` package and install the example, `make deps` and `make android-deps` install what the targets need, and `make install` now copies `examples`, `scripts`, `java` and `build.rs` into the registry.
The built-in keyboard for an app's own text input. While `App::external_text_input` asks for text and no ltk text field has the focus, the built-in keyboard shows with `App::external_text_purpose`, so a terminal gets its row of Escape, Tab, Ctrl, Alt and arrows, comes back when the serial changes and hides when the request ends. Its keys reach the app as physical ones, pressed and released through `App::on_raw_key_event` with the panel's Ctrl and Alt held for them. Before, it only served ltk's text fields, so such an app had no keyboard where the compositor offers no input method.
Clippy. `make clippy` is clean again: derived `Default`s replace the hand-written ones, `div_ceil`, `then_some`, struct update syntax for strokes, the map entry API in the text renderer, function paths in place of closures in the examples and tests, and fewer casts and explicit lifetimes.
`README.md`, `docs/architecture.md` and `CHANGELOG.md` describe the features, the backend, the events and their units, and what stays with a backend.
Not done. On Android there are no overlays, secondary surfaces or subsurfaces, no dead keys from a physical keyboard and no saved state for the activity. Why a second activity in the same process never comes up was not found. The keep-alive service does not ask for the notification permission, so on Android 13 and later its notification may not show until it is granted in the app's settings.
2026-10-16 23:46:50 +02:00
admin e3b76423fb A text field can take its horizontal padding from its host, the primary finger reaches the pointer hooks, and the screen probe left out of the previous commit is added
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The previous commit described the size hint fitted to the screen before the first commit and the pointer hooks being called for the primary finger, but left out the files that do it, so `run.rs` called an `output_probe` module that did not exist. They are here, together with a text field option that a host laying out its own padding needs.
Text field padding. A single-line `TextEdit` insets its text by `PAD_H` scaled with the field height, so a tall and narrow field has almost no room left for its text: rustdroid's Android fields, which already subtract the padding the Android view asked for, showed a verification code digit in a 24 px wide gap minus ltk's own inset, scrolled it as if it overflowed and clipped half of it. `TextEdit::padding_h( px )` sets that inset in physical pixels; `0` lets the text use the whole rect. Without it nothing changes. `single_line_pad_h` takes the override and every single-line consumer passes it: the draw path, `single_line_scroll_x`, `single_line_align_offset` and `byte_offset_at`, so a click still lands on the glyph that is drawn. The runtime sees it through a new `pad_h` field in `WidgetHandlers::TextEdit`, read by `text_input_pad` where a click is turned into a text position (pointer down, word selection, drag selection and the context menu's paste offset). The password toggle zone keeps the theme inset.
The screen probe. `output_probe::output_logical_size` reads the logical size of the first output on an event queue of its own, before any surface exists: `xdg_output`'s logical size when the compositor offers it, else the current mode over the scale; the objects it binds are destroyed or released before it returns. `window_fit::output_share` gives the part of an output a window may take, the same 90 % the fit after the first configure uses, which now goes through it too. When the size hint is unpinned on the first configure the minimum size is released along with the maximum, as the documentation of `window_resizable` says.
Touch as pointer. The primary finger's down, motion and up are also reported through `App::on_pointer_move` and `App::on_pointer_button`, as the left mouse button is, so an application that handles the pointer gets the touch without a separate path. The module documentation says so.
2026-10-13 20:36:29 +02:00
admin a1a4d51677 An on-screen keyboard of ltk's own, driven by layout files; TextEdit::purpose for the row a terminal needs; the wheel scrolls a multiline field; a notebook page fills its height
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Text entry on a phone comes from `zwp_text_input_v3`: a focused field enables the protocol and the compositor's input method, squeekboard today, draws a keyboard and commits text through it. Eydos wants to drop that process, so the keyboard has to come from somewhere else, and the natural place is the toolkit that already draws everything else and knows which field has the focus and what it is for. This commit puts one in ltk, as data files plus a panel any host can drive: ltk's runtime shows it under a focused text field when no input method is there, and forge will draw the same panel in its chrome and deliver the keys to the focused client, which is the second half and is not in this commit. Along the way the demo that exercises it exposed two gaps in the widgets, fixed here too.
Layouts are data. `keyboards/<language>.json`, one file per layout, searched in `LTK_KEYBOARDS_DIR` when set, then `$XDG_DATA_HOME/ltk/keyboards` or `~/.local/share/ltk/keyboards`, then `/usr/share/ltk/keyboards`; `osk::layout::search_paths()`, `available()` and `load( name )` are the API, and the English layout is compiled in as the last resort. A file has `name`, a `label` for the layout-switch key, `layers` and `variants`. A layer is a list of rows; a row a list of keys; a key is a bare string for the text it types, or an object with an `action` (`shift`, `backspace`, `enter`, `space`, `layer`, `layout`, `hide`), the target `layer`, a `label`, and a `width` in key units, `1` by default, which share the row's width so a row of nine keys comes out centred under one of ten. `base` is mandatory; a missing `shift` layer is derived from it by uppercasing. `variants` maps a key's text to what a long press offers, and the shifted form of a key uses its base's, uppercased. A key may also be a named key, `{ "key": "Escape" }`, `Tab`, the arrows, `Home`, `End`, `Page_Up`, `Page_Down`, `Delete`, `Insert`, `F1` to `F12`, or a sticky modifier, `{ "modifier": "ctrl" }` or `alt`. `en.json` and `es.json` ship, with symbol layers and the accented variants each language needs. The files go into the registry copy through `make install` and into `ltk-theme-default` under `/usr/share/ltk/keyboards`.
The terminal row. A terminal needs Escape, Tab, Ctrl, Alt, the arrows and the shell's symbols, and no other application does, so those are not a layout but a row laid above any language's layout: `keyboards/bar-terminal.json`, made of the named keys and modifiers above plus `-`, `/`, `|`, `\` and `~` with their variants. Files named `bar-*.json` are rows, not layouts, and `available()` leaves them out, so the layout-switch key does not cycle onto one; the first version listed it and a tap on that key made the keyboard vanish behind a duplicated bar. Which applications get the row is decided by what the field says it is for: `TextEdit::purpose( InputPurpose::Terminal )`, snapshotted into the handlers like `secure`, which the built-in panel reads through `set_purpose` and which also goes out as the `terminal` content purpose of `zwp_text_input_v3`, the same one VTE-based terminals declare, so a compositor hosting the panel can pick the row from the protocol; for a client that declares nothing it can decide by `app_id`.
`osk::Panel` is a state machine a host drives. It holds the loaded layouts, the current layer, shift as off, one-shot or locked, the sticky modifiers, the purpose and its extra row, the geometry of all of it inside the rectangle the host gave it with `set_rect( rect, scale )`, and the press in flight. The host feeds it `press_down`, `press_move`, `press_up` and, from its own timer, `tick`, each returning an `Event`: `Text`, `Backspace`, `Enter`, `Hide`, `Key( keysym, modifiers )` for what text cannot carry, an arrow, Escape, Tab, or a character while Ctrl or Alt is held, or `Changed` when only the panel's look changed. A key types on release; a press held 450 ms opens its variants, which the finger slides onto and the release picks; backspace fires on press and repeats every 60 ms after the same delay; shift is one-shot and locks on a double tap within 350 ms; a modifier stays down for the next key and a character typed under it goes out as a `Key`, since text cannot carry Ctrl. `next_deadline()` says when `tick` next has work, `height( scale )` what the panel needs, `press_down` answers `None` for a press outside it so the host treats that as its own. `draw( canvas )` paints it with the active palette; the action keys show theme icons rather than glyphs, `keyboard/shift`, `keyboard/backspace`, `keyboard/enter`, `general/down-simple` for hide, `accessibility/languages` for the layout key, the `general` arrows for the terminal row, rasterised once per size and tint, because the first version drew `⇧` and `🌐` and the fallback chain has no glyph for the latter, which showed as a question mark; a layout key with no label of its own shows the active layout's. Nothing in `Panel` knows about text fields or Wayland, which is what lets a compositor host it. Fifteen tests cover the layout parser, the derived shift layer, variants following case, the bar filtering, and the panel's taps, one-shot and locked shift, variants, repeat, layer and layout switches and the terminal row.
The runtime shows it. `event_loop/osk.rs` puts a `Panel` on a surface when a text field takes the focus and `builtin_osk` holds: the compositor advertised no `zwp_text_input_manager_v3`, or `LTK_BUILTIN_OSK=1` is set, which is how to try it on a desktop that has an input method, or the app returns `true` from the new `App::builtin_keyboard()`. The panel is placed at the bottom of the surface by both renderers, and the widget tree is laid out in what is left above it, so the focused field is never covered. Presses, motion and releases from the pointer and from touch are offered to the panel before the gesture machine, a press on the already focused field brings a hidden panel back, and the run loop's timeout now takes the minimum of the long-press, tooltip and panel wakeups so variants and repeat fire on time. `Text` goes through the same insertion as a physical key, `Key` through the same dispatch, with Ctrl applied for its duration, `Enter` submits or inserts a newline in a multiline field, `Hide` keeps the focus and takes the panel away; losing the focus removes it. The layout is picked from `$LANG`. `ltk::InputPurpose` is exported, and `docs/architecture.md` gains the section that says all of this, with the compositor's part sketched.
The demo. `examples/inputs` becomes a notebook with the login page it had and a Shell page: one multiline field that holds a transcript, prompt included, declared a terminal, so the row appears; Enter runs the line under the last prompt (`echo`, `ls`, `pwd`, `clear`), the arrows move through the transcript, and a Ctrl combination interrupts the line the way a terminal shows it. Escape quits only from the login page, because a key the app answers never reaches the field, which is what first made the arrows dead.
Two widget gaps the demo found. `Notebook` gave its page the page's preferred height, so a page that fills its space, a scrolled list or a flex, got none and showed nothing: the active page is now wrapped in `flex` and gets the height under the strip. And the multiline field had no way to scroll: it chose its first visible line from the cursor alone on every draw, so the transcript ran under the keyboard and the wheel did nothing. `text_edit/scroll.rs` gives it a `TextScroll` the runtime keeps per field beside the cursor and the selection, in the frame state, the draw context and the `core` runtime alike: the first line asked for by hand and the cursor at that moment. The view holds there while the cursor stays put and, once it moves, follows it by the least it has to, as an editor does; without a request the result is exactly the old rule. `Window::resolve` computes the visible lines once for drawing, hit testing and the wheel, so they cannot disagree, and replaces the copy each of the first two had. In `on_pointer_axis` the vertical motion is offered to the multiline field under the pointer first, three lines per notch from `value120` or `discrete`, touchpad pixels accumulated until they add up to a line, and only when the field cannot move that way does it go to a `scroll` around it. `TextScroll` is public but opaque, since `Element::draw` is public and needs it; `Default` is the cursor-following behaviour. Six tests cover the hold, the follow, the clamping, the notch and the accumulation. A read-only field is not interactive and does not take the wheel; touch drags inside a field do not scroll it yet.
Not done. Forge does not host the panel yet, so on the phone squeekboard is still what appears. The panel's look is a first pass, sized in logical units with the theme's palette, to be restyled from mockups. Only `en` and `es` ship.
2026-09-25 12:50:58 +02:00
admin 919df60681 App::take_blur_request, and a press on a focused select_on_focus field positions the cursor
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Two gaps found while using trust's address box on a phone, both about what happens to a text field once it holds the focus.
Dropping the focus. An app could ask for the focus of a widget, through `App::take_focus_request`, but had no way to give it up. A browser needs to: once an address is submitted the field has done its job, yet it kept the focus, so the on-screen keyboard stayed over the page that had just been asked for, and came back whenever the window was raised, since ltk enables the input method again on the text-input `enter` that follows while a text field holds the focus. `App::take_blur_request` is the counterpart: return `true` once and the run loop calls `set_focus( keyboard_focus, None )`, the same call the back request already uses to blur a text field, so the text-input disable and `on_text_input_focused( false )` come with it. It is handled just before the focus request, so an app that asks for both in one cycle ends up focused, which is what "open a new tab and type" needs; a pending `focus_retry` from an earlier cycle is cleared, or it would hand the focus straight back to the widget it was taken from.
Positioning the cursor in a `select_on_focus` field. `handle_text_pointer_down` and `handle_text_pointer_drag` returned at once for a field built with `.select_on_focus( true )`, so that the press that focuses it keeps the whole-value selection `set_focus` has just installed. The guard did not distinguish that press from a later one: in a field that already had the focus, no press ever placed the cursor and no drag ever selected a range, with a finger or with a mouse. That suits a numeric picker poorly and an address box not at all, where correcting one character of a long URL meant retyping it. `AppData` gains `press_on_focused`, computed in both press paths, touch and pointer, right before their `set_focus`: whether the press landed on the widget that already held the focus. The two guards now apply only when it did not. The first press on such a field selects everything, as before; a press on it while focused collapses the selection to the byte offset under it, and a drag from there extends the selection.
Not changed. `handle_text_select_word` keeps its `select_on_focus` guard, so a double press on such a field still leaves the whole value selected rather than a word. The right-button path, which opens the context menu without touching the selection, never reached these functions and is unaffected. `set_focus` still moves the cursor to the end and reselects when it is called for the widget that already has the focus; a programmatic focus request on a focused `select_on_focus` field therefore selects everything again, which is what an address-box shortcut wants.
2026-09-21 22:45:16 +02:00
admin d4d7ee742e Bump to 0.2.0: SW/GLES paint parity, shared font resolution, FrameState refactor, docs and packaging fixes
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Rendering parity (software ↔ GLES). The software backend now rounds glyph pen positions and image destinations to the nearest integer pixel, matching what the GLES backend already did; previously it truncated, so text and 1:1 images could land up to half a pixel off between the two backends and the bilinear sample read ~1 px softer than the source. Gradients and shadows are deliberately left unimplemented on the software backend, and the GLES multi-rect `glScissor` clip is left coarse on purpose: making it exact would need stencil bits the EGL config does not carry, or routing the partial-redraw path through the offscreen clip layer, which would break its `fill` / `clear_rects_transparent` scissor semantics. Adds software-backend pixel tests covering the snapping.
Font resolution unification. The system-font candidate chain, `find_font_opt` and `load_default_font_bytes` lived in two copies (`render/helpers` and `gles_render/helpers`) that had already diverged — one resolved through `find_font_opt`, the other inlined the candidate loop — and now live once in `system_fonts`. The two per-backend `OnceLock` default-font caches and `primary_handle` collapse into a single `system_fonts::default_handle`. Module docs and the `font_registry` caller are updated accordingly.
Shared image validation and rect inflation. `draw_image_data`'s dimension check and its one-line warning were byte-duplicated across both backends and are now `render::helpers::validate_rgba_dims`. The six manual symmetric `Rect`-inflate literals in the GLES primitives reuse the existing `Rect::expand`.
FrameState and DrawCtx de-duplication. The eleven `SurfaceState` fields the draw pass owns and threads through `DrawCtx` — `widget_rects`, the cursor / selection maps, the scroll state, `accessible_extras`, `prev_focused` / `prev_hovered` / `prev_pressed` — move into a `FrameState` sub-struct. The per-frame `build_draw_ctx` / `commit_draw_ctx` helpers can then borrow `&mut ss.frame`, disjoint from `ss.canvas` and `ss.pool`, so the four frame paths (software / GLES × full / partial) replace their duplicated `DrawCtx` construction and write-back with a single helper call each. A whole-`SurfaceState` borrow could not express this (partial borrows do not cross function boundaries), which is why the helpers take the sub-struct. `content_dirty` stays on `SurfaceState` — it is an invalidation flag, not frame state — and is reset at the call site.
rich_text tests. Adds the previously-missing `tests.rs` for the `RichText` widget: one hit rect per visual line a link spans (the widget's core invariant), the single-line and no-link cases, preferred-size growth with hard line breaks, and `map_msg` range preservation — all headless against a software `Canvas`, with line counts forced by `\n` so they do not depend on any system font's measured width.
Documentation. Fills the rustdoc gaps on the embedder-facing surface: `core::UiSurface` accessors, the `egl_context` public API, the `GlesCanvas` methods, `theme::typography` and `theme::error`, and the `RichText` / `Text` builders; adds a crate-level "Rendering backends" overview. `CHANGELOG.md` is added (0.2.0 / 0.1.0), and `docs/widgets.md` / `docs/cookbook.md` gain `rich_text`, `external`, and the CPU-draw / path-clip / externally-laid-out-tree recipes. `debian/changelog` gets the 0.2.0-1 entry. Private intra-doc links to `system_fonts` are demoted to code spans so `cargo doc` is warning-free.
Packaging. The `libltk-dev` registry crate shipped a `Cargo.toml` declaring the `lookup` bench while the `Makefile` install copied only `src/`, so Cargo refused to parse the manifest over a missing `benches/lookup.rs`; the install now ships `benches/` as well (the file alone satisfies the parse — criterion is a dev-dependency and is not resolved when the crate is consumed as a library). `Cargo.toml` is bumped to 0.2.0 to match the package version and the `ltk-0.2.0` registry directory.
2026-06-25 12:43:40 +02:00
admin 4aa3480b64 refactor: split every monolithic module into focused submodules
Each source file that had grown beyond a single concern is replaced by an identically-named directory containing focused submodules. `src/event_loop/mod.rs` (878 lines) becomes a directory with clipboard, context_menu, cursor_shape, drag, focus, handlers, invalidation, overlays_reconcile, repeat, run, surface, text_editing, and tooltip. Every widget, input handler, and theme component follows the same split. Public interfaces are unchanged — only the internal file layout moves.
image bumped from 0.25.2 to 0.25.9.
2026-05-15 23:46:56 +02:00