Here's a constraint explorer demo put together with @joshka
https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/assets/1813121/08d7d8f6-d013-44b4-8331-f4eee3589cce
It allows users to interactive explore how the constraints behave with
respect to each other and compare that across flex modes. It allows
users to swap constraints out for other constraints, increment or
decrement the values, add and remove constraints, and add spacing
It is also a good example for how to structure a simple TUI with several
Ratatui code patterns that are useful for refactoring.
Fixes: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/issues/792
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Co-authored-by: Josh McKinney <joshka@users.noreply.github.com>
This PR makes a number of simplifications to the layout and constraint
features that were added after v0.25.0.
For users upgrading from v0.25.0, the net effect of this PR (along with
the other PRs) is the following:
- New `Flex` modes have been added.
- `Flex::Start` (new default)
- `Flex::Center`
- `Flex::End`
- `Flex::SpaceAround`
- `Flex::SpaceBetween`
- `Flex::Legacy` (old default)
- `Min(v)` grows to allocate excess space in all `Flex` modes instead of
shrinking (except in `Flex::Legacy` where it retains old behavior).
- `Fill(1)` grows to allocate excess space, growing equally with
`Min(v)`.
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The following contains a summary of the changes in this PR and the
motivation behind them.
**`Flex`**
- Removes `Flex::Stretch`
- Renames `Flex::StretchLast` to `Flex::Legacy`
**`Constraint`**
- Removes `Fixed`
- Makes `Min(v)` grow as much as possible everywhere (except
`Flex::Legacy` where it retains the old behavior)
- Makes `Min(v)` grow equally as `Fill(1)` while respecting `Min` lower
bounds. When `Fill` and `Min` are used together, they both fill excess
space equally.
Allowing `Min(v)` to grow still allows users to build the same layouts
as before with `Flex::Start` with no breaking changes to the behavior.
This PR also removes the unstable feature `SegmentSize`.
This is a breaking change to the behavior of constraints. If users want
old behavior, they can use `Flex::Legacy`.
```rust
Layout::vertical([Length(25), Length(25)]).flex(Flex::Legacy)
```
Users that have constraint that exceed the available space will probably
not see any difference or see an improvement in their layouts. Any
layout with `Min` will be identical in `Flex::Start` and `Flex::Legacy`
so any layout with `Min` will not be breaking.
Previously, `Table` used `EvenDistribution` internally by default, but
with that gone the default is now `Flex::Start`. This changes the
behavior of `Table` (for the better in most cases). The only way for
users to get exactly the same as the old behavior is to change their
constraints. I imagine most users will be happier out of the box with
the new Table default.
Resolves https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/issues/843
Thanks to @joshka for the direction
Follow up to https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/pull/783
This PR introduces different priorities for each kind of constraint.
This PR also adds tests that specifies this behavior. This PR resolves a
number of broken tests.
Fixes https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/issues/827
With this PR, the layout algorithm will do the following in order:
1. Ensure that all the segments are within the user provided area and
ensure that all segments and spacers are aligned next to each other
2. if a user provides a `layout.spacing`, it will enforce it.
3. ensure proportional elements are all proportional to each other
4. if a user provides a `Fixed(v)` constraint, it will enforce it.
5. `Min` / `Max` binding inequality constraints
6. `Length`
7. `Percentage`
8. `Ratio`
9. collapse `Min` or collapse `Max`
10. grow `Proportional` as much as possible
11. grow spacers as much as possible
This PR also returns the spacer areas as `Rects` to the user. Users can
then draw into the spacers as they see fit (thanks @joshka for the
idea). Here's a screenshot with the modified flex example:
<img width="569" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/assets/1813121/46c8901d-882c-43b0-ba87-b1d455099d8f">
This PR introduces a `strengths` module that has "default" weights that
give stable solutions as well as predictable behavior.
- Used a few new techniques from the 0.26 features (ref widgets, text rendering,
dividers / padding etc.)
- Updated the app to a simpler application approach
- Use color_eyre
- Make it look pretty (colors, new proportional borders)
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Fixes https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/issues/819
Co-authored-by: Josh McKinney <joshka@users.noreply.github.com>
- colored gauges
- removed box borders
- show the difference between ratio / percentage and unicode / no unicode better
- better application approach (consistent with newer examples)
- various changes for 0.26 featuers
- impl `Widget` for `&App`
- use color_eyre
for gauge.tape
- change to get better output from the new code
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Fixes: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/issues/846
Co-authored-by: Josh McKinney <joshka@users.noreply.github.com>
Simplified a bunch of the logic in the demo2 example
- Moved destroy mode to its own file.
- Moved error handling to its own file.
- Removed AppContext
- Implemented Widget for &App. The app state is small enough that it
doesn't matter here and we could just copy or clone the app state on
every frame, but for larger apps this can be a significant performance
improvement.
- Made the tabs stateful
- Made the term module just a collection of functions rather than a
struct.
- Changed to use color_eyre for error handling.
- Changed keyboard shortcuts and rearranged the bottom bar.
- Use strum for the tabs enum.
Many widgets can be rendered without changing their state.
This commit implements The `Widget` trait for references to
widgets and changes their implementations to be immutable.
This allows us to render widgets without consuming them by passing a ref
to the widget when calling `Frame::render_widget()`.
```rust
// this might be stored in a struct
let paragraph = Paragraph::new("Hello world!");
let [left, right] = area.split(&Layout::horizontal([20, 20]));
frame.render_widget(¶graph, left);
frame.render_widget(¶graph, right); // we can reuse the widget
```
Implemented for all widgets except BarChart (which has an implementation
that modifies the internal state and requires a rewrite to fix.
Other widgets will be implemented in follow up commits.
Fixes: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/discussions/164
Replaces PRs: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/pull/122 and
https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/pull/16
Enables: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/issues/132
Validated as a viable working solution by:
https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/pull/836
This commit refactors the colors_rgb example to implement the Widget
trait on mutable references to the app and its sub-widgets. This allows
the app to update its state while it is being rendered.
Additionally the main and run functions are refactored to be similar to
the other recent examples. This uses a pattern where the App struct has
a `run` method that takes a terminal as an argument, and the main
function is in control of initializing and restoring the terminal and
installing the error hooks.
Added convenience functions left_aligned(), centered() and
right_aligned() plus unit tests. Updated example code.
Signed-off-by: Eelco Empting <me@eelco.de>
This PR adds:
- subjectively better-looking list example
- change list example to a todo list example
- status of a TODO can be changed, further info can be seen under the list.
In table.rs
- added scrollbar to the table
- colors changed to use style::palette::tailwind
- now colors can be changed with keys (l or →) for the next color, (h or
←) for the previous color
- added a footer for key info
For table.tape
- typing speed changed to 0.75s from 0.5s
- screen size changed to fit
- pushed keys changed to show the current example better
Fixes: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/issues/800
The current `List` example will unselect and reset the position of a
list.
This PR will save the last selected item, and updates `List` to honor
its offset, preventing the list from resetting when the user
`unselect()`s a `StatefulList`.
Fixes#758, fixes#801
This PR adds:
- `style` and `alignment` to `Text`
- impl `Widget` for `Text`
- replace `Text` manual draw to call for Widget impl
All places that use `Text` have been updated and support its new
features expect paragraph which still has a custom implementation.
This commit adds `scroll` to the flex example. It also adds more examples to showcase how constraints interact. It improves the UI to make it easier to understand and short terminal friendly.
<img width="380" alt="image" src="https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/assets/1813121/30541efc-ecbe-4e28-b4ef-4d5f1dc63fec"/>
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Co-authored-by: Dheepak Krishnamurthy <me@kdheepak.com>
```shell
cargo run --example demo2 --features="crossterm widget-calendar"
```
Press `d` to activate destroy mode and Enjoy!
Vendors a copy of tui-big-text to allow us to use it in the demo.
This PR adds a new way to space elements in a `Layout`.
Loosely based on
[flexbox](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/), this
PR adds a `Flex` enum with the following variants:
- Start
- Center
- End
- SpaceAround
- SpaceBetween
<img width="380" alt="image" src="https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/assets/1813121/b744518c-eae7-4e35-bbc4-fe3c95193cde">
It also adds two more variants, to make this backward compatible and to
make it replace `SegmentSize`:
- StretchLast (default in the `Flex` enum, also behavior matches old
default `SegmentSize::LastTakesRemainder`)
- Stretch (behavior matches `SegmentSize::EvenDistribution`)
The `Start` variant from above matches `SegmentSize::None`.
This allows `Flex` to be a complete replacement for `SegmentSize`, hence
this PR also deprecates the `segment_size` constructor on `Layout`.
`SegmentSize` is still used in `Table` but under the hood `segment_size`
maps to `Flex` with all tests passing unchanged.
I also put together a simple example for `Flex` layouts so that I could
test it visually, shared below:
https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/assets/1813121/c8716c59-493f-4631-add5-feecf4bd4e06
Any iterator whose item is convertible into `Row` can now be
collected into a `Table`.
Where previously, `Table::new` accepted `IntoIterator<Item = Row>`, it
now accepts `IntoIterator<Item: Into<Row>>`.
BREAKING CHANGE:
The compiler can no longer infer the element type of the container
passed to `Table::new()`. For example, `Table::new(vec![], widths)`
will no longer compile, as the type of `vec![]` can no longer be
inferred.
Any iterator whose item is convertible into `Line` can now be
collected into `Tabs`.
In addition, where previously `Tabs::new` required a `Vec`, it can now
accept any object that implements `IntoIterator` with an item type
implementing `Into<Line>`.
BREAKING CHANGE:
Calls to `Tabs::new()` whose argument is collected from an iterator
will no longer compile. For example,
`Tabs::new(["a","b"].into_iter().collect())` will no longer compile,
because the return type of `.collect()` can no longer be inferred to
be a `Vec<_>`.
This allows for multi-line symbols to be used as the highlight symbol.
```rust
let table = Table::new(rows, widths)
.highlight_symbol(Text::from(vec![
"".into(),
" █ ".into(),
" █ ".into(),
"".into(),
]));
```
Previously, `patch_style` and `reset_style` in `Text`, `Line` and `Span`
were using a mutable reference to `Self`. To be more consistent with
the rest of `ratatui`, which is using fluent setters, these now take
ownership of `Self` and return it.
The `Row::new` constructor accepts a single argument that implements
`IntoIterator`. This commit adds an implementation of `FromIterator`,
as a thin wrapper around `Row::new`. This allows `.collect::<Row>()`
to be used at the end of an iterator chain, rather than wrapping the
entire iterator chain in `Row::new`.
* feat: accept Color and Modifier for all Styles
All style related methods now accept `S: Into<Style>` instead of
`Style`.
`Color` and `Modifier` implement `Into<Style>` so this is allows for
more ergonomic usage. E.g.:
```rust
Line::styled("hello", Style::new().red());
Line::styled("world", Style::new().bold());
// can now be simplified to
Line::styled("hello", Color::Red);
Line::styled("world", Modifier::BOLD);
```
Fixes https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/issues/694
BREAKING CHANGE: All style related methods now accept `S: Into<Style>`
instead of `Style`. This means that if you are already passing an
ambiguous type that implements `Into<Style>` you will need to remove
the `.into()` call.
`Block` style methods can no longer be called from a const context as
trait functions cannot (yet) be const.
* feat: add tuple conversions to Style
Adds conversions for various Color and Modifier combinations
* chore: add unit tests
* feat(table): Add a Table::footer method
Signed-off-by: Antonio Yang <yanganto@gmail.com>
* feat(table): Add a Row::top_margin method
- add Row::top_margin
- update table example
Signed-off-by: Antonio Yang <yanganto@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Antonio Yang <yanganto@gmail.com>
The previous name `start_corner` did not communicate clearly the intent of the method.
A new method `direction` and a new enum `ListDirection` were added.
`start_corner` is now deprecated
This prevents creating a table that doesn't actually render anything.
Fixes: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/issues/537
BREAKING CHANGE: Table::new() now takes an additional widths parameter.
