Crate ferroui_designer_support 

Designer support: what an IDE needs to preview the XAML documents of an application.

• DesignWindowLoader loads the text of a document into the window that is previewed: a window as it is, a control as the content of a window, a style, a resource dictionary or a data template inside the control the document names with Design.PreviewWith.
• remote::RemoteDesignerEntryPoint is the previewer: it connects to the IDE over the remote protocol, receives the text of the document whenever it changes, and sends back frames of the previewed window and the errors of the document. With the html method (remote::html_transport::HtmlWebSocketTransport) the frames go to a web page the previewer serves, which sends back the mouse input.

An application of the port is linked into its binary, so there is no separate host process that loads the application: the binary of the application is the host of its own previewer. It registers the run-time XAML loader and calls remote::RemoteDesignerEntryPoint::main with the arguments the IDE gave it and the function that builds its application builder:

fn main() {
    let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().skip(1).collect();
    if args.iter().any(|arg| arg == "--transport") {
        FerroRuntimeXamlLoader::register();
        RemoteDesignerEntryPoint::main(&args, build_app);
    }
    // ... otherwise start the application as usual.
}

Modules

remote

The previewer that talks to an IDE over the remote protocol (FerroUI.DesignerSupport.Remote).

Structs

DesignWindowLoader

Loads the text of a XAML document into the window the previewer shows.