truce-gui

Built-in GPU-free GUI runtime for truce plugins.

Overview

Provides a complete widget toolkit that renders entirely on the CPU using tiny-skia for software rasterization. This gives plugins a zero-dependency GUI that works on every platform without requiring a GPU. The BuiltinEditor can auto-generate a full UI from your parameter layout, or you can compose widgets manually for a custom look.

Windowing is handled through baseview; the tiny-skia pixmap is uploaded to a wgpu surface each frame for compositing. All supported formats (CLAP, VST3, VST2, AU, LV2, AAX, standalone) use the same path.

truce-gui is the heavy half of the GUI split - the BuiltinEditor and its runtime dependencies (tiny-skia, baseview, fontdue, truce-font) live here. The lightweight trait + data surface (GridLayout, RenderBackend, WidgetType, Theme, …) lives in truce-gui-types so alt-GUI backends (truce-egui / truce-iced / truce-slint) and plugin authors using a custom editor don't transitively pull in the rasterisation + windowing stack.

Key types

• BuiltinEditor -- the main Editor implementation; auto-generates UI from params
• CpuBackend -- default tiny-skia software rasterizer (the RenderBackend trait it implements lives in truce-gui-types)
• BaseviewTranslator -- maps baseview::Events into the InputEvent stream consumed by truce_gui_types::interaction::dispatch
• ColorExt -- extension trait that adds to_skia() / to_premultiplied() to the light truce_gui_types::theme::Color type (the rasterizer-specific conversions live here so the light crate stays tiny-skia-free)
• Re-exports of every truce-gui-types and truce-plugin public symbol so existing truce_gui::layout::* / truce_gui::PluginLogic paths keep resolving

Widgets

Knobs, sliders, toggles, dropdowns, XY pads, level meters, labels, and parameter groups. All widgets bind directly to truce parameters. The widget data types + draw helpers live in truce-gui-types::widgets; this crate provides the CPU rasterizer that the draw helpers paint into.

Usage

fn editor() -> Option<Box<dyn Editor>> {
    Some(Box::new(BuiltinEditor::new()))
}

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