README.md

sycamore-mac

Yes that window is transparent. :}

window.setBackgroundColor_(NSColor::colorWithCalibratedRed_green_blue_alpha_(nil, 1.0, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5));

Getting started with this WIP

git clone https://github.com/Submersible/sycamore-mac.git
cd sycamore-mac
cargo run --example simple_example

Help Wanted

Sycamore makes it really easy to extend, almost simply by implementing GenericNode.

Main issue is figuring out to create the Mac UI using cocoa & objc, plus lots of trial and error reading the AppKit documentation. 🥴

Todo...

• View component
  • Simple horizontal & vertical layouts
  • Children with constant sizes
• Text component
  • Text font family
  • Text color
  • Text size
• Text input component
  • Change event binding
• Component
  • Click event
  • Mouse move event
• Window component
• Create more todo items...
• Launching a window on Mac, from a sycamore template (bindings don't work)

Auto Layout

Right now strugglying to figure out how to auto layouts, so that components positions & sizes don't need to be manually set--something like the flexbox model would be ideal.

• It seems like the like cacao provides a much better interface than cocoa, plus there is an example that shows exactly how to use Auto Layout: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao/blob/f558f8e24d6c4f869a4135bd230222455a435dcf/examples/autolayout.rs

  To preview this functionality:

  git clone https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao.git
  cd cacao
  cargo run --example autolayout

  

• There's also someone using NSLayoutConstraint directly through objc, but this looks less fun, and no rust crate to import.