coexist with other controls in a window?

[dbalsom]

I wanted to use a textedit as a cli entry line, rather than deal with keyboard events and sending them to the terminal.

However the way egui_ratatui calculates the available size is based off the entire window ui; so if you add any additional controls to the window, then egui_ratatui continually resizes itself larger until it hits the edges of the screen.

[gold-silver-copper]

The way I work around this is by creating a container window that then contains 2 contexts, one for ratatui, another for the controls.

something like

    egui::CentralPanel::default()
  
        .show(contexts.ctx_mut(), |ui| {
            let av_height = ui.available_height().clamp(100., 1500.);
            let av_width = ui.available_width().clamp(100., 1500.);

            egui::SidePanel::right("container")
                .min_width(av_width)
                .max_width(av_width)
           
                .show_inside(ui, |ui| {

                    egui::TopBottomPanel::top("terminal_1")
                            .min_height(200.)
                            .max_height(200.)
                         
                            .show_inside(ui, |ui| {
                                ui.add(ratatui_terminal_1.backend_mut());
                            });
                    

                    egui::TopBottomPanel::bottom("terminal_2")
                        .min_height(ui.available_height())
                        .max_height(ui.available_height())
                
                        .show_inside(ui, |ui| {
                            ui.add(ratatui_terminal_2.backend_mut());
                        });
                });

        
        });

[gold-silver-copper]

Please let me know if it works, thank you. If you need further help, I would appreciate if you shared some sample code so I could help you better.

[dbalsom]

thanks, i'll try that out - by the way, your discord invite links are expired!

[gold-silver-copper]

thanks, i'll try that out - by the way, your discord invite links are expired!

oops, heres a new one https://discord.gg/tDBPkdgApN