Basalt is a window/ui framework for building desktop applications or providing a ui a top other applications. In the backend vulkano which is a safe rust wrapper around vulkan. Basalt provides window creation, advance input handling, and along with the ui itself. The UI is based on the idea of a Bin. A Bin can have borders, backgrounds, and text and is the the fundamental element for building any ui widget/element. Currently the amount of provided widgets/elements is limited.
The project is very much a work in progress and is what I work on the side. Some issues exists, but nothing preventing you from creating a full-fledged app!
use basalt::input::MouseButton;
use basalt::interface::UnitValue::Pixels;
use basalt::interface::{BinStyle, Color, TextAttrs, TextBody};
use basalt::render::{Renderer, RendererError};
use basalt::window::WindowOptions;
use basalt::{Basalt, BasaltOptions};
fn main() {
Basalt::initialize(BasaltOptions::default(), move |basalt_res| {
let basalt = basalt_res.unwrap();
let window = basalt
.window_manager_ref()
.create(WindowOptions {
title: String::from("app"),
inner_size: Some([400; 2]),
..WindowOptions::default()
})
.unwrap();
let background = window.new_bin();
background
.style_update(BinStyle {
pos_from_t: Pixels(0.0),
pos_from_b: Pixels(0.0),
pos_from_l: Pixels(0.0),
pos_from_r: Pixels(0.0),
back_color: Color::shex("f0f0f0"),
..Default::default()
})
.expect_valid();
let button = window.new_bin();
background.add_child(button.clone());
button
.style_update(BinStyle {
pos_from_t: Pixels(75.0),
pos_from_l: Pixels(75.0),
width: Pixels(75.0),
height: Pixels(32.0),
padding_t: Pixels(8.0),
padding_l: Pixels(8.0),
back_color: Color::shex("c0c0c0"),
border_size_t: Pixels(1.0),
border_size_b: Pixels(1.0),
border_size_l: Pixels(1.0),
border_size_r: Pixels(1.0),
border_color_t: Color::shex("707070"),
border_color_b: Color::shex("707070"),
border_color_l: Color::shex("707070"),
border_color_r: Color::shex("707070"),
text_body: TextBody {
base_attrs: TextAttrs {
height: Pixels(16.0),
color: Color::shex("303030"),
..Default::default()
},
..TextBody::from("Button")
},
..Default::default()
})
.expect_valid();
button.on_press(MouseButton::Left, move |_, window, local| {
println!("{:?} {:?}", window, local);
Default::default()
});
let mut renderer = Renderer::new(window).unwrap();
renderer.interface_only();
match renderer.run() {
Ok(_) | Err(RendererError::Closed) => (),
Err(e) => {
println!("{:?}", e);
},
}
basalt.exit();
});
}