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UI prototyping w/ Glade for lazy me

Home Page: https://glade.gnome.org/

License: MIT License

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uibuilder.nim's Introduction

uibuilder.nim

UI Builder for @nim-lang/ui using Glade

Checkout examples

Usage

you must have Glade installed in order to build UI and create *.glade files

$ nimble install uibuilder

UIBuilder contains a library for load glade file and construct UI on-the-fly, another part - uibuilder binary - which generates a Nim module from glade file.

Construct UI at compile-time

This method is prefered:

Glade file compiled into AST at compile-time
No more glade files in your distribution package
Output module wont depends on UIBuilder
Binary size reduced 50%

import ui, ospaths, uibuilderpkg/codegen

const path = joinPath(staticExec("pwd"), "test.glade")

init()
build(path)
mainLoop()

Load Glade on run-ime file

import ui, uibuilder

var builder = newBuilder()
builder.load("ui.glade")
builder.run()

Generate Nim module (WIP)

the uibuilder command will generates a Nim module which can run standalone or importable. the generated module will not requires uibuilder, it just need ui module

Note: only widgets have id are exported

$ uibuilder examples/basic_controls.glade
Nim code saved at: examples/basic_controls.nim
Run command bellow to see the result:

# nim c -r examples/basic_controls.nim

Showcases:

Nimble GUI

Widgets

Almost widgets are same as GTK Widgets, but there are some widgets need a small hack in order to work

Group

UI Builder converts GtkFrame into a Group, it will finds nested GtkLabel and make it as Group's title

RadioButtons

In Glade, you must cover a group of GtkRadioButtons with a GtkBox, the box must have a style class named radiobuttons

Tab

Tab uses GtkNotebook, tab's container must be a GtkBox

MultilineEntry

Just add a GtkTextView widget to make a MultilineEntry, you also can pre-define text for it w/ GtkTextBuffer

Slider

Slider uses GtkScale You can defined ajustment for Slider and SpinBox with GtkAdjustment

Todos

Better event handling
Code generator for static layout
Support QT Designer layout file

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uibuilder.nim's Issues

Error when attempting to compile

This is an exciting project! I know you just started, and it's a prototype, but I thought I'd report this anyway. When I run nim c uibuilder.nim It fails with this message:

uibuilder.nim(30, 30) Error: type mismatch: got <Builder, XmlNode>
but expected one of: 
proc build(builder: Builder; node: XmlNode; parent: var Widget)
  first type mismatch at position: 3
  required type: var Widget

expression: build(builder, child)

failed to compile on Windows with Mingw64

nimble install uibuilder

... CC: debug
        ... Hint:  [Link]
        ... C:\Users\LOVLJIDY\nimcache\uibuilder_r\win_alloc.cpp.obj:alloc.cpp:(.text+0x30): undefined reference to `std::ios_base::ios_base()'
        ... C:\Users\LOVLJIDY\nimcache\uibuilder_r\win_alloc.cpp.obj:alloc.cpp:(.text+0xc8): undefined reference to `std::basic_ios<char, std::char_traits<char> >::init(std::basic_streambuf<char, std::char_traits<char> >*)'
        ... C:\Users\USER\nimcache\uibuilder_r\win_alloc.cpp.obj:alloc.cpp:(.text+0x126): undefined reference to `std::locale::locale()'
        ... C:\Users\USER\nimcache\uibuilder_r\win_alloc.cpp.obj:alloc.cpp:(.text+0x171): undefined reference to `std::basic_ios<char, std::char_traits<char> >::init(std::basic_streambuf<char, std::char_traits<char> >*)'

and so many errors

Err: "cannot evaluate at compile time: state"

Hi @ba0f3

I just got an issue on the nimblegui due to an error while compiling. Are you going for an update of uibuilder anytime soon?

/nim/nim_nimble_gui/nimblegui.nim(7, 6) template/generic instantiation of `build` from here
/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-1.0.4/lib/pure/random.nim(593, 3) Error: cannot evaluate at compile time: state

Install fail with XML error

When I run "nimble install" it fails with:
Error: Build failed for package: uibuilder

Further down are the details:

$HOME/.nimble/pkgs/xml-#devel/xml.nim(170, 24) Error: usage of 'isNil' is a user-defined error

I'm using latest head of nim compiler (0.18.1) and recent nimble too.

SIGSEGV: Illegal storage access. (Attempt to read from nil?)

Amazing progress on this!

After pulling latest changes from the last 2 days, I now get this error when attempting to run the basic_controls example program:

$ ./basic_controls
Traceback (most recent call last)
basic_controls.nim(4)    basic_controls
uibuilder.nim(293)       load
uibuilder.nim(142)       parseXml
uibuilder.nim(142)       parseXml
uibuilder.nim(142)       parseXml
uibuilder.nim(142)       parseXml
uibuilder.nim(125)       parseXml
system.nim(1529)         add
SIGSEGV: Illegal storage access. (Attempt to read from nil?)