How to get started with UI development

[jcfischer]

How does one get started with writing an own UI using mruby-zest?

I sort of understand the test-libversion.c way of setting up the Zyn UI, but how would one approach of defining a UI?
Would it be possible to create a "Hello World" example?

[fundamental]

On 06-27, Jens-Christian Fischer wrote: How does one get started with writing an own UI using mruby-zest? I sort of understand the `test-libversion.c` way of setting up the Zyn UI, but how would one approach of defining a UI? Would it be possible to create a "Hello World" example?

I'd say the first step would be to replace https://github.com/mruby-zest/mruby-zest/blob/master/example/MainWindow.qml with your own 'root widget' since when zest is setup it spawns a Qml::MainWindow as the first widget. You could replace this with something fairly simple like

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Widget { id: my_base_widget function draw(vg) { background color(:red) } Text { label: "Hello World" } } -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm guessing you will want something a bit more thorough than that however.

[jcfischer]

that works :) And yes, I thought about a bit more UI to what I'd like to do :)

as soon as #9 is solved, I will try to continue and build an .so that I can interface to Rust. I see another couple of rabbit holes in my future :)