🎨 acrylic

Ultra-portable, web-inspired UI toolkit with SIMD graphics.

Work in progress!

Also, requires a nightly toolchain if you've enabled SIMD support (which is the default).

🪂 Features

• feels familiar to web developers
• support for templating
• integrated JSON state store
• anti-aliased
• input API designed for improved accessibility
• pure and safe rust
• Fully no_std

🏗️ Progress (core crate)

• ☑ XML parsing
• ☑ flexbox-like layout
• ☑ PNG images
• ☐ Railway images [WiP]
• ☑ full no_std support
• ☑ textual nodes
• ☑ state store
• ☑ round containers
• ☑ input events
• ☑ event handlers
• ☑ SIMD acceleration
• ☑ text editing
• ☑ templating
• ☐ texture cache
• ☐ non-hardcoded state file
• ☐ scrolling [WiP]
• ☐ rich text
• ☐ external links
• ☐ video playback
• ☐ sound playback

🧱 Supported platforms

platform	Link	Rendering	Asset Loading	Event Handling
web	acrylic-web	☑	☑	WiP
wayland	acrylic-wayland	☑	☑	WiP
x11
gdi
fbdev
drmkms

⚡️ Quickstart

Project structure:

.
├── Cargo.toml
├── assets
│   ├── rustacean-flat-happy.png
│   └── default.xml
└── src
    └── app.rs

An asset: rustacean-flat-happy.png

You can get it here. Place it in assets/.

The view layout: default.xml

<h-rem style="default">
    <inflate />
    <v-fixed length="400" gap="10">
        <inflate />
        <png file="rustacean-flat-happy.png" />
        <h-fixed length="40" gap="10">
            <inflate />
            <label text="Rust rocks!" />
            <inflate />
        </h-fixed>
        <inflate />
    </v-fixed>
    <inflate />
</h-rem>

The code: app.rs

use platform::{app, acrylic::{core::app::SimpleCallbackMap, ArcStr}};

fn layout_selector() -> ArcStr {
    "default.xml".into()
}

app!("./assets/", layout_selector, SimpleCallbackMap::new(), "default.json");

The manifest: Cargo.toml

[package]
name = "my-app"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"

[lib]
crate-type = [ "cdylib" ]
path = "src/app.rs"

[dependencies]
# building for the web
platform = { package = "acrylic-web", version = "0.3" }

Building

cargo +nightly build --release --target wasm32-unknown-unknown

Note: this uses nightly because SIMD in rust is currently unstable.

Install a web server

httpserv is tiny and good enough for this demo.

cargo install httpserv

Download the HTML file which starts your app

You can get it here. Place it at the root of your project, next to the cargo manifest.

Start the web server

From the root of your project:

# normal start:
httpserv

# quiet + in the background
httpserv > /dev/null &

Then open http://localhost:8080/#release

Expected Result

☕ Contact & Contributions

Contact

You can contact me via email or on Discord: bitsneak#1889.

You can use these for any question regarding this project.

Contributions

We gladly accept all contributions via Github Pull Requests.

👉 See Also

• egui
• slint

🕯️ License

• MIT for the code
• SIL Open Font License for the embedded Noto Font