Crate ravenrs_platform_native

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Desktop backend for RavenRS: one winit window per app, rendered with wgpu (Metal on macOS, DX12/Vulkan on Windows, Vulkan/GL on Linux).

Frames are produced on demand: the event loop sleeps until input arrives or reactive state changes, so an idle app uses no CPU or GPU time.

Screen readers see the UI through AccessKit: the accessibility tree is built only while one is running.

Structs§

AppIdentity: Who the app is to the system, for finding its icon and its menu entry.
OpenDialog: The system’s dialog for choosing a file to open.
SaveDialog: The system’s dialog for choosing where to save a file. It asks before replacing a file that exists, so the path it returns can be written.
SystemNotifier: Shows notifications in the system’s own place: the Notification Center on macOS, a toast on Windows and the notification server on Linux, which plain GNOME has even without a tray. Needs the notifications feature.
SystemTray: Keeps the app running beside the clock when its window is closed. Give it to AppIdentity::close_to_tray.
WindowOptions: How the main window opens.

diagnose: Finds the GPU the way a window would and describes it, along with the machine and the build, without showing anything. For a command line option such as --diagnostics, which still answers when a window would not open or would be too slow to use. Printing the result gives text to paste into a bug report.
open_url: Opens a web page in the browser. Only http and https are accepted, so a bad URL cannot end up running a program or opening a file instead.
open_with_system: Opens a file with the program the system uses for it: a PDF in its viewer, a web page in the browser. The program runs on its own, so this does not wait for it.
run: Opens a window showing root and runs until it is closed.
run_as: Like run, for an app the system should recognize as itself.
run_with_icon: Like run, with an icon for the window’s title bar and the task bar on Windows and Linux. macOS takes an app’s icon from its bundle instead.