Layout container for Bubble Tea the easy way ;) .... hopefully Chocolate is meant to create complex and responsive layouts with themes via flavour working consistent and without hassle together in TUI applications.
The first implementation wasn't really fitting my intentions. Some of the problems that I identified are:
- Restrictive interface (forced to work in a own specific way for chocolate)
- Complicated calculations and inefficient handling of the bubbletea layer
- Force to use chocolate as management layer for the whole bubbletea TUI
So I took the time to work out a way better implementation that solves the main issues and has way better layout handling.
The layout handling is done by using the cassowary algorithm and is implemented like the GTK constraint layouts.
Further the idea is now to provide a library that is focused only on styling and layouts and not on handling the whole bubbletea model handling.
This makes it now able to work out a chocolate specific components set analog bubbles, which will use the chocolate as layout workhorse. It is focusing on UI components in the way, that it shall provide mainly functionality like dialog (ae.: yes, no) via overlays, status bars, menus, unify the selection of models that provide input functionality, handling the visibility and input focus for the underlying models and so on.
This time I'm very convinced that the API is providing what I wanted to have in the first place.
This is a very early state and in theory the whole API can change
at any time.
Still now is the best time to get ANY feedback to change the way
in the right direction if needed.
To get started, please see the examples Created sweets repository
The following tasks are in order regarding my personal priority scoring:
Providing some basic examplesCreate the bars repository with some useful bars- API method naming cleanup
- Documentation