Alignment in Cursive

[python128]

I wanted to make an application in which a command mode (like vim or kakoune's) is present..
But, I am not able to align the dialog box(of an EditView) at the bottom of the terminal screen.

Is it possible to do so?
If so, how?

Thanks in advance

[gyscos]

Hi, and thanks for the question!

Right now there are two ways to do it:

• The manual way: use StackView::add_layer_at to manually put the new layer at the bottom of the screen, and use StackView::reposition_layer to keep it at the bottom when you detect a resize event.
• The automatic way: write a custom view wrapper that requests the full width and height, but keep its child at the bottom.

https://docs.rs/cursive-aligned-view/latest/cursive_aligned_view/ may be an implementation of the second solution.

[python128]

Thanks a lot! Will try so!

[python128]

Can you give an example for the same?
I am getting confused..

Thanks in advance.

[gyscos]

There's an example in the doc for that crate:

use cursive::{self, CursiveExt};
use cursive::view::Resizeable;
use cursive::views::{Panel, DummyView};

use cursive_aligned_view::AlignedView;

fn main() {
    let mut siv = cursive::default();

    let panel = Panel::new(DummyView)
        .title("Hello, world!")
        .full_width()
        .align_bottom_center();

    siv.add_fullscreen_layer(panel);
    // siv.run()
}