Some cool things are brewing for K/N UI world. Her...
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Big Chungus
04/14/2023, 12:14 PMSome cool things are brewing for K/N UI world. Here's a little demo of GTK4 app on LinuxX64 build with kotlin native! All the credits go to @vbsteven and friends. Keep an eye out! (all the code in the thread)
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Big Chungus
04/14/2023, 12:14 PMmain.kt.cpp
Big Chungus
04/14/2023, 12:16 PMKey things being showcased in the video:
• GTK Widgets (Application, Window, Button, Label, Switch)
• Window widget is subclassed with custom init logic encapsulated
• Mutable state and event handling to update it (buttons)
• State binding between widgets (switches)
• Persistent state saving and loading (window size and first switch state)
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vbsteven
04/14/2023, 12:48 PMDo you have a repo with the full project?
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Big Chungus
04/14/2023, 12:52 PMI do, but it's private for now. Happy to give you read access if you drop me your gh handle
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Pablichjenkov
04/14/2023, 2:18 PMGTK bindings! Cool. GTK is awesome
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Arkadii Ivanov
04/15/2023, 11:50 AMNice! Thanks for sharing! Do you see any value of having a navigation library for K/N (e.g. for linuxX64)? I've got a feature request to add support of linuxX64 to Decompose, but I'm not sure how much this would be useful.
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Big Chungus
04/15/2023, 11:51 AMNo idea, I've just started exploring it with hopes of building gtk-compose. So far I only have a semi-working PoC that's able to generate static layout tree (no props or events in compose layer just yet)
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vbsteven
04/15/2023, 3:48 PM(co-author of the underlying bindings here) I'm working on a similar higher level library on top but I'm actually going for an MVC model instead of reactive/compose. Mostly because IMHO reactive does not work well with the underlying statefulness of GTK.
vbsteven
04/15/2023, 3:50 PM@Arkadii Ivanov what would a K/N navigation library look like?
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Arkadii Ivanov
04/15/2023, 4:57 PMYou can check the docs - https://arkivanov.github.io/Decompose/navigation/overview/
Basically, there is the core
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