cloudiful-bevy-settings

Reusable Bevy settings framework for apps that keep their own action enums, field keys, localization layer, and UI messages.

What it provides

• SettingActionHandler<Action>: app settings resource contract for validating and applying a narrowed settings action
• RequestedSettingAction<Action>: adapter trait for app-defined UI/request messages
• SettingFieldSpec<AppAction, FieldKey, TextKey>: generic field descriptor with label metadata and a control definition
• SettingControlSpec<Action, FieldKey>: toggle, stepper, and select control variants
• SettingSliderSpec<Action>: slider metadata for stepper-style controls
• SettingSelectOption<Action>: select option descriptor with disabled-state support
• SettingFieldSource<AppAction, Context, FieldKey, TextKey>: trait for producing field specs from app context
• SettingSystemSet: shared ApplyActions and SyncUi schedule sets
• apply_setting_action(...): immediate helper for applying one app action to persistent settings
• change_setting(...): message-driven bridge from UI/request messages into persistent settings updates
• register_setting_systems(...): helper that orders change systems before UI sync systems

What it does not provide

• app-specific settings resources
• app-specific action enums, field keys, or text-key enums
• widget rendering, button/slider/select UI components, or layout
• persistence bootstrapping beyond using bevy-persistent
• localized label assembly helpers or any localization runtime

This crate stays narrow on purpose: your app owns settings data, UI messages, field identities, and localization. This crate only coordinates schema/action flow and the system ordering around persistent settings updates.

Minimal end-to-end example

use bevy::prelude::*;
use bevy_persistent::{Persistent, StorageFormat};
use cloudiful_bevy_settings::{
    RequestedSettingAction, SettingActionHandler, change_setting,
    register_setting_systems,
};
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
enum AppAction {
    ToggleFullscreen,
    SetScale(f32),
    Ignore,
}

#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
enum SettingsAction {
    ToggleFullscreen,
    SetScale(f32),
}

impl TryFrom<AppAction> for SettingsAction {
    type Error = ();

    fn try_from(value: AppAction) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
        match value {
            AppAction::ToggleFullscreen => Ok(Self::ToggleFullscreen),
            AppAction::SetScale(scale) => Ok(Self::SetScale(scale)),
            AppAction::Ignore => Err(()),
        }
    }
}

#[derive(Resource, Debug, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct AppSettings {
    fullscreen: bool,
    ui_scale: f32,
}

impl SettingActionHandler<SettingsAction> for AppSettings {
    fn can_apply(&self, action: SettingsAction) -> bool {
        match action {
            SettingsAction::ToggleFullscreen => true,
            SettingsAction::SetScale(scale) => (0.5..=2.0).contains(&scale),
        }
    }

    fn apply(&mut self, action: SettingsAction) {
        match action {
            SettingsAction::ToggleFullscreen => {
                self.fullscreen = !self.fullscreen;
            }
            SettingsAction::SetScale(scale) => {
                self.ui_scale = scale;
            }
        }
    }
}

#[derive(Message, Debug, Clone, Copy)]
struct UiSettingRequest {
    action: AppAction,
}

impl RequestedSettingAction<AppAction> for UiSettingRequest {
    fn action(&self) -> AppAction {
        self.action
    }
}

fn sync_ui() {}

fn build_settings_resource() -> Persistent<AppSettings> {
    let path = std::env::temp_dir().join("cloudiful-bevy-settings-example.toml");

    Persistent::<AppSettings>::builder()
        .name("app settings")
        .format(StorageFormat::Toml)
        .path(&path)
        .default(AppSettings {
            fullscreen: false,
            ui_scale: 1.0,
        })
        .build()
        .unwrap()
}

fn main() {
    let mut app = App::new();
    app.add_message::<UiSettingRequest>();
    app.insert_resource(build_settings_resource());

    register_setting_systems(
        &mut app,
        change_setting::<AppSettings, SettingsAction, UiSettingRequest, AppAction>,
        sync_ui,
    );
}

Schema Types

SettingFieldSpec is the generic description your UI layer can consume. Each field has:

• label: already-resolved display text
• label_key: optional app-defined text key for localization-aware UIs
• control: one SettingControlSpec variant

SettingControlSpec models the common settings control shapes:

• Toggle { text, action }
• Stepper { key, value, decrease_action, increase_action, slider }
• Select { key, value, options }

Helpers on SettingFieldSpec keep construction compact:

• toggle(...)
• stepper(...)
• select(...)
• with_label_key(...)
• with_slider(...)

Use SettingSliderSpec::new(...) when a stepper also needs slider metadata such as range, precision, suffix text, and the fn(f32) -> Action mapper.

System Behavior

register_setting_systems(...) configures two ordered update sets:

1. SettingSystemSet::ApplyActions
2. SettingSystemSet::SyncUi

Put message-reading or direct action-application systems in ApplyActions. Put systems that rebuild labels, refresh view state, or mirror settings back into UI resources in SyncUi.

change_setting(...) reads Bevy messages, extracts the app action via RequestedSettingAction, narrows it with TryFrom, checks can_apply, and then updates the Persistent<T> resource.

apply_setting_action(...) is the same logic without message plumbing. Use it when a system already has the action value in hand.