egui/crates/eframe
Jan Procházka 514ee0c433
Improve web text agent (#4561)
- Closes https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/4060 - no longer aligned
to top
- Closes https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/4479 - `canvas.style` is
not set anywhere anymore
- Closes https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/2231 - same as #4060
- Closes https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/3618 - there is now one
`<input>` per `eframe` app, and it's removed transitively by
`WebRunner::destroy -> AppRunner::drop -> TextAgent::drop`

This PR improves the text agent to make fewer assumptions about how
`egui` is embedded into the page:
- Text agent no longer sets the canvas position
- There is now a text agent for each instance of `WebRunner`
- The input element is now moved to the correct position, so the OS can
display the IME window in the correct place. Before it would typically
be outside of the viewport

The best way to test this is to build & server the web demo locally:
```
scripts/build_demo_web.sh && scripts/start_server.sh
```

Then open the EasyMark editor, and try using IME to input some emojis:
http://localhost:8888/#EasyMarkEditor

To open the emoji keyboard use:
- <kbd>win + .</kbd> on Windows
- <kbd>ctrl + cmd + space</kbd> on Mac

Tested on:
- [x] Windows
- [x] Linux
- [x] MacOS
- [x] Android
- [x] iOS

## Migration guide

The canvas no longer controls its own size/position on the page. This
means that those properties can now be controlled entirely via HTML and
CSS, and multiple separate `eframe` apps can coexist better on a single
page.

To match the old behavior, set the `canvas` width and height to 100% of
the `body` element:

```html
<html>
  <body>
    <canvas></canvas>
  </body>
</html>
```

```css
/* remove default margins and use full viewport */
html, body {
  margin: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

canvas {
  /* match parent element size */
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}
```

Note that there is no need to set `position: absolute`/`left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%)`/etc., and setting those properties may
poorly affect the sharpness of `egui`-rendered text.

Because `eframe` no longer updates the canvas style in any way, it also
means that on mobile, the canvas no longer collapses upwards to make
space for a mobile keyboard. This should be solved in other ways:
https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/4572
2024-05-29 12:54:33 +02:00
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data Set a default icon for all eframe apps: a white `e` on black background (#2996) 2023-05-17 16:23:32 +02:00
src Improve web text agent (#4561) 2024-05-29 12:54:33 +02:00
CHANGELOG.md Release 0.27.2 - Fix blurry web rendering 2024-04-02 18:18:43 +02:00
Cargo.toml Use ResizeObserver instead of `resize` event (#4536) 2024-05-27 21:41:28 +02:00
README.md Improve README.md 2024-02-05 14:11:54 +01:00

README.md

eframe: the egui framework

Latest version Documentation MIT Apache

eframe is the official framework library for writing apps using egui. The app can be compiled both to run natively (for Linux, Mac, Windows, and Android) or as a web app (using Wasm).

To get started, see the examples. To learn how to set up eframe for web and native, go to https://github.com/emilk/eframe_template/ and follow the instructions there!

There is also a tutorial video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtUkr_z7l84.

For how to use egui, see the egui docs.


eframe uses egui_glow for rendering, and on native it uses egui-winit.

To use on Linux, first run:

sudo apt-get install libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxkbcommon-dev libssl-dev

You need to either use edition = "2021", or set resolver = "2" in the [workspace] section of your to-level Cargo.toml. See this link for more info.

You can opt-in to the using egui_wgpu for rendering by enabling the wgpu feature and setting NativeOptions::renderer to Renderer::Wgpu.

To get copy-paste working on web, you need to compile with export RUSTFLAGS=--cfg=web_sys_unstable_apis.

Alternatives

eframe is not the only way to write an app using egui! You can also try egui-miniquad, bevy_egui, egui_sdl2_gl, and others.

You can also use egui_glow and winit to build your own app as demonstrated in https://github.com/emilk/egui/blob/master/crates/egui_glow/examples/pure_glow.rs.

Limitations when running egui on the web

eframe uses WebGL (via glow) and Wasm, and almost nothing else from the web tech stack. This has some benefits, but also produces some challenges and serious downsides.

  • Rendering: Getting pixel-perfect rendering right on the web is very difficult.
  • Search: you cannot search an egui web page like you would a normal web page.
  • Bringing up an on-screen keyboard on mobile: there is no JS function to do this, so eframe fakes it by adding some invisible DOM elements. It doesn't always work.
  • Mobile text editing is not as good as for a normal web app.
  • No integration with browser settings for colors and fonts.
  • Accessibility: There is an experimental screen reader for eframe, but it has to be enabled explicitly. There is no JS function to ask "Does the user want a screen reader?" (and there should probably not be such a function, due to user tracking/integrity concerns). egui supports AccessKit, but as of early 2024, AccessKit lacks a Web backend.

In many ways, eframe is trying to make the browser do something it wasn't designed to do (though there are many things browser vendors could do to improve how well libraries like egui work).

The suggested use for eframe are for web apps where performance and responsiveness are more important than accessibility and mobile text editing.

Companion crates

Not all rust crates work when compiled to Wasm, but here are some useful crates have been designed to work well both natively and as Wasm:

Name

The frame in eframe stands both for the frame in which your egui app resides and also for "framework" (eframe is a framework, egui is a library).