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IUP Metadata and Code Generators

WIP - Work in Progress

IUP Toolkit is a solid and well-proven portable GUI toolkit that exposes a simple raw C API, so it can be used via FFI.

More information can be found athttps://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/

This project aims to collect rich metadata information about IUP's elements, enabling code-gen tools to create type-checked bindings for any programing language.

Type-checked

As IUP's API is largely based on key-value string attributes, this metadata can be useful to improve the developer experience through a fully typed and idiomatic API by removing the need for string based actions.

Metadata:

{ "ClassName": "dialog", "Name": "Dialog", "Attributes": [ { "AttributeName": "TITLE", "Name": "Title", "DataType": "String", }, { "AttributeName": "DIALOGFRAME", "Name": "DialogFrame", "DataType": "Boolean", } ] }, { "ClassName": "button", "Name": "Button", "Attributes": [ { "AttributeName": "PADDING", "Name": "Padding", "DataType": "String", "DataFormat": "Size", "Default": "0x0" }, { "AttributeName": "IMAGEPOSITION", "Name": "ImagePosition", "DataType": "String", "DataFormat": "Enum", "EnumValues": [ { "Name": "Left", "StrValue": "LEFT", }, { "Name": "Right", "StrValue": "RIGHT", }, { "Name": "Bottom", "StrValue": "BOTTOM", }, { "Name": "Top", "StrValue": "TOP", } ], "Default": "LEFT", } ] }

Original IUP API in C:

Ihandle* dlg = IupDialog(NULL); IupSetAttribute(dlg, "TITLE", "Find"); IupSetAttribute(dlg, "DIALOGFRAME", "Yes");

Ihandle* bt_close = IupButton("Close", NULL); IupSetCallback(bt_close, "IMAGEPOSITION", "LEFT"); IupSetAttribute(bt_close, "PADDING", "10x2");

Type-checked Zig API generated from metadata:

var dlg = Dialog.init(); dlg.setTitle("Find"); dlg.setDialogFrame(true);

var bt_close = Button.init(); bt_close.setTitle("Close"); bt_close.setImagePosition(.Left); bt_close.setPadding(10, 2);

Documentation

Additionally, this project also provides documentation snippets extracted directly from the official HTML page, allowing the generated code to use the target programing language documentation conventions and IDE convenience tools.

{ "Documentation": "SIZE (non inheritable): Dialogs size. Additionally the following values can also be defined for width and/or height: "FULL": Defines the dialogs width (or height) equal to the screen's width (or height) "HALF": Defines the dialogs width (or height) equal to half the screen's width (or height) "THIRD": Defines the dialogs width (or height) equal to 1/3 the screen's width (or height) "QUARTER": Defines the dialogs width (or height) equal to 1/4 of the screen's width (or height) "EIGHTH": Defines the dialogs width (or height) equal to 1/8 of the screen's width (or height)", "AttributeName": "SIZE", "Name": "Size", "DataType": "String", "DataFormat": "DialogSize", }

Automatically generated documentation in Zig code:

/// /// SIZE (non inheritable): Dialogs size. /// Additionally the following values can also be defined for width and/or /// height: "FULL": Defines the dialogs width (or height) equal to the screen's /// width (or height) "HALF": Defines the dialogs width (or height) equal to /// half the screen's width (or height) "THIRD": Defines the dialogs width (or /// height) equal to 1/3 the screen's width (or height) "QUARTER": Defines the /// dialogs width (or height) equal to 1/4 of the screen's width (or height) /// "EIGHTH": Defines the dialogs width (or height) equal to 1/8 of the /// screen's width (or height) pub fn setSize(self: *Self, width: ?iup.ScreenSize, height: ?iup.ScreenSize) void { // ... }

JSON Metadata

All metadata are available in JSON format and can be consumed by any tool independently of this project.

Download: iup.json

Data types

DataType Description
Unknown Not mapped yet
Void Call-style attribute, with no argument.
String C-style null terminated string attribute
Boolean C-style 32bits integer boolean 1 or 0
Int C-style 32bits signed integer
Float C-style 32bits signed float
Double C-style 64bits signed float
RefInt By ref (address of) a 32bits signed integer
Char 8bits char
Handle Pointer to a IUP element, See HandleType property if a well-known class, otherwise it can be any IUP element.
VoidPtr C-style *void pointer
Canvas Pointer to IUP's Icanvas structure

Formats for string attributes

DataFormat Description
Binary This value may be not a string, see DataType for propper binary representation
HandleName String containing a HandleName
Date String "TODAY" or a date formated as "yyyy/MM/dd"
Size String formatted as "widhtxheight", both parts are int and optional.
Margin String formatted as "horizxvert", both parts are int and required
DialogSize String formatted as "ScaleWidthxScaleHeight", where ScaleWidth can be "FULL", "HALF", "THIRD", "QUARTER", "EIGHTH" or absolute width integer value and ScaleHeight can be "FULL", "HALF", "THIRD", "QUARTER", "EIGHTH" or absolute height integer value.
Alignment String formatted as "HAlignment:VAlignment", where HAlignment can be "ALEFT", "ACENTER", "ARIGHT" and VAlignment can be "ATOP", "ACENTER", "ABOTTOM".
LinColPos String formatted as "lin,col", both parts are int and required
XYPos String formatted as "x,y", both parts are int and required
Range String formatted as "begin,end", both parts are int and required
FloatRange String formatted as "begin,end", both parts are float and required
Rgb String formated with three or four values "255 255 255" representing the RGB or RGBA components
Rect String formated with four coordinates "x,y,x + width,y + height", all parts are int and required
Selection String "NONE", "ALL" or formated as "startlin,startcol:endlin,endcol", all parts are int and required.
MdiActivate String "NEXT", "PREVIOUS" or a HandleName
Enum One of defined values in EnumValues.

IUP for Zig

For more information about using IUP on Zig, please visit IUP for Zig repository.

Pending work

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