ZIm/crates/gpui
Michael Sloan d801b7b12e
Fix bindings_for_action handling of shadowed key bindings (#32220)
Fixes two things:

* ~3 months ago [in PR
#26420](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/26420/files#diff-33b58aa2da03d791c2c4761af6012851b7400e348922d64babe5fd48ac2a8e60)
`bindings_for_action` was changed to return bindings even when they are
shadowed (when the keystrokes would actually do something else).

* For edit prediction keybindings there was some odd behavior where
bindings for `edit_prediction_conflict` were taking precedence over
bindings for `edit_prediction` even when the `edit_prediction_conflict`
predicate didn't match. The workaround for this was #24812. The way it
worked was:

    - List all bindings for the action

- For each binding, get the highest precedence binding with the same
input sequence

- If the highest precedence binding has the same action, include this
binding. This was the bug - this meant that if a binding in the keymap
has the same keystrokes and action it can incorrectly take display
precedence even if its context predicate does not pass.

- Fix is to check that the highest precedence binding is a full match.
To do this efficiently, it's based on an index within the keymap
bindings.

Also adds `highest_precedence_binding_*` variants which avoid the
inefficiency of building lists of bindings just to use the last.

Release Notes:

- Fixed display of keybindings to skip bindings that are shadowed by a
binding that uses the same keystrokes.
- Fixed display of `editor::AcceptEditPrediction` bindings to use the
normal precedence that prioritizes user bindings.
2025-06-06 06:24:59 +00:00
..
docs docs: Change render function's return type (#27229) 2025-03-20 22:48:22 -06:00
examples gpui: Improve window.prompt to support ESC with non-English cancel text on macOS (#29538) 2025-05-30 15:26:27 +00:00
resources/windows windows: Move manifest file to gpui (#11036) 2024-04-26 13:56:48 -07:00
src Fix bindings_for_action handling of shadowed key bindings (#32220) 2025-06-06 06:24:59 +00:00
tests chore: Replace as_any functions with trait upcasting (#28221) 2025-04-08 22:16:27 +02:00
build.rs call: Fix crash when screensharing on MacOS (#28784) 2025-04-15 16:36:08 +00:00
Cargo.toml gpui: Implement window_handle and display_handle for wayland platform (#28152) 2025-05-30 15:45:03 -07:00
LICENSE-APACHE chore: Add crate licenses. (#4158) 2024-01-23 16:56:22 +01:00
README.md gpui: Update docs to reflect removal of View, ViewContext, WindowContext (#24008) 2025-01-31 11:40:42 -08:00

Welcome to GPUI!

GPUI is a hybrid immediate and retained mode, GPU accelerated, UI framework for Rust, designed to support a wide variety of applications.

Getting Started

GPUI is still in active development as we work on the Zed code editor and isn't yet on crates.io. You'll also need to use the latest version of stable Rust and be on macOS or Linux. Add the following to your Cargo.toml:

gpui = { git = "https://github.com/zed-industries/zed" }

Everything in GPUI starts with an Application. You can create one with Application::new(), and kick off your application by passing a callback to Application::run(). Inside this callback, you can create a new window with App::open_window(), and register your first root view. See gpui.rs for a complete example.

Dependencies

GPUI has various system dependencies that it needs in order to work.

macOS

On macOS, GPUI uses Metal for rendering. In order to use Metal, you need to do the following:

  • Install Xcode from the macOS App Store, or from the Apple Developer website. Note this requires a developer account.

Ensure you launch XCode after installing, and install the macOS components, which is the default option.

  • Install Xcode command line tools

    xcode-select --install
    
  • Ensure that the Xcode command line tools are using your newly installed copy of Xcode:

    sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
    

The Big Picture

GPUI offers three different registers depending on your needs:

  • State management and communication with Entity's. Whenever you need to store application state that communicates between different parts of your application, you'll want to use GPUI's entities. Entities are owned by GPUI and are only accessible through an owned smart pointer similar to an Rc. See the app::context module for more information.

  • High level, declarative UI with views. All UI in GPUI starts with a view. A view is simply an Entity that can be rendered, by implementing the Render trait. At the start of each frame, GPUI will call this render method on the root view of a given window. Views build a tree of elements, lay them out and style them with a tailwind-style API, and then give them to GPUI to turn into pixels. See the div element for an all purpose swiss-army knife of rendering.

  • Low level, imperative UI with Elements. Elements are the building blocks of UI in GPUI, and they provide a nice wrapper around an imperative API that provides as much flexibility and control as you need. Elements have total control over how they and their child elements are rendered and can be used for making efficient views into large lists, implement custom layouting for a code editor, and anything else you can think of. See the element module for more information.

Each of these registers has one or more corresponding contexts that can be accessed from all GPUI services. This context is your main interface to GPUI, and is used extensively throughout the framework.

Other Resources

In addition to the systems above, GPUI provides a range of smaller services that are useful for building complex applications:

  • Actions are user-defined structs that are used for converting keystrokes into logical operations in your UI. Use this for implementing keyboard shortcuts, such as cmd-q. See the action module for more information.

  • Platform services, such as quit the app or open a URL are available as methods on the app::App.

  • An async executor that is integrated with the platform's event loop. See the executor module for more information.,

  • The [gpui::test] macro provides a convenient way to write tests for your GPUI applications. Tests also have their own kind of context, a TestAppContext which provides ways of simulating common platform input. See app::test_context and test modules for more details.

Currently, the best way to learn about these APIs is to read the Zed source code, ask us about it at a fireside hack, or drop a question in the Zed Discord. We're working on improving the documentation, creating more examples, and will be publishing more guides to GPUI on our blog.