nimforum mirror - Nimwave - build TUIs for the terminal, web, and desktop

sekao (orginal) [2022-06-18T15:21:52+02:00] view original

This is a first public release of my new TUI library:

The idea is to build a text UI project for the terminal, the web (wasm), and the desktop (opengl) from the same codebase. It is basically just extracted from my BBS project, with some refactoring and whatnot. I hope you find it useful :D

jasonfi (orginal) [2022-06-18T15:27:09+02:00] view original

Is there a dropdown box?

sekao (orginal) [2022-06-18T15:28:37+02:00] view original

No, there are only a couple built in components right now: vbox, hbox, scroll, etc. You'll need to build your own components for most things.

xigoi (orginal) [2022-06-19T11:02:06+02:00] view original

Why does it use JSON for everything? Doesn't that defeat the point of using a statically typed language?

sekao (orginal) [2022-06-19T12:49:03+02:00] view original

Mainly because i want to define components on-the-fly from inside other components. You can see examples in the starter project but basically these local components have access to the lexical scope of their parents because they were defined dynamically in this way. But yeah, it's a tradeoff. If you want to use a more static approach you can still use the web/opengl backends; they aren't coupled with the jsonnode rendering stuff at all.

sekao (orginal) [2022-12-18T17:53:10+01:00] view original

I just released a major new version of Nimwave which completely removes the dynamic JsonNode-based design and replaces it with a more statically typed design using inheritance and methods. Special thanks to @ElegantBeef for suggesting this approach six months ago on discord...I finally got around to implementing it 😅

Check out the new README and updated starter project to see how it works now.

ElegantBeef (orginal) [2022-12-18T22:26:13+01:00] view original

No problem, and here I thought no one listened to me. :P

Araq (orginal) [2022-12-19T12:43:36+01:00] view original

Can this be used to implement a Turbo Pascal-like editor?

sekao (orginal) [2022-12-19T15:02:49+01:00] view original

Sure, and with Nimwave's OpenGL renderer you can put your Turbo Pascal like editor on a spinning cube :D Damn, that's a project idea...

moigagoo (orginal) [2022-12-19T15:34:13+01:00] view original

I see putting things on spinning cubes is your thing 😅

ElegantBeef (orginal) [2022-12-20T02:01:16+01:00] view original

Spinning cubes are so last year, spinning hypercube or broke.

miran (orginal) [2022-12-20T09:31:53+01:00] view original

For the uninitiated:

@sekao's most successful project (at least by the number of Github stars): https://github.com/oakes/vim_cubed

grd (orginal) [2022-12-22T00:11:23+01:00] view original

@sekao have you looked into this? https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9028#58869 This TUI looks very promising.

Nlits (orginal) [2023-05-01T01:37:14+02:00] view original

Do you have some basic starter code? The example repo is extremely confusing and feels like a project someone would work on for a few months, not an example.

sekao (orginal) [2023-05-02T02:53:39+02:00] view original

The starter project has a bunch of stuff but like it says in the readme you only need to focus on common.nim, which is <300 lines. The rest is platform specific code that you probably don't need to care about for now. I could've hidden most of it in the library but then you wouldn't be able to customize it. Hope that helps, good luck :D

Nlits (orginal) [2023-05-02T03:54:40+02:00] view original

Honestly, >30 lines for a basic example is enough to overwhelm me. Idk, but I prefer the style of having a minimal example, and then finding things like procs and options on your own. I might look at common.nim again tho

dlesnoff (orginal) [2023-09-05T16:10:30+02:00] view original

I have managed to output an hello world with your library. It should be possible to propose some default procedures (like a defaultOnTick, defaultOnClick, …). We can always change the onTick procedure after to customize further.

You may create another repository for examples with gui and web (or put these examples in an example dir in the original library) and remove these examples from the starter repository.

The screenshots are promising but even the starter example lags a lot.

sekao (orginal) [2023-09-05T17:59:16+02:00] view original

I fixed the lag issue in the starter project today, thanks for pointing it out. I know it can be overwhelming but I don't plan to move the gui/web stuff out of it.

flaxzune (orginal) [2024-04-04T13:08:38+02:00] view original

OMG that would be so awesome.

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