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Finn Evers ded6467604 Refactor the scrollbar component (#36105 )

Closes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37621
Improves https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/24623

Adding scrollbars withing Zed's UI currently is rather cumbersome, as it
requires the copying of a lot of code in order for these to work. Wiring
up settings for scrollbar visibilty always has to be done at the call
site and the state has to be saved and maintained by the caller as well.
Similarly, reserving space has to also be handled by the caller.

This PR changes the way scrollbars work in Zed fundamentally by making
use of the new `use_keyed_state` APIs: Instead of saving the state at
the call site, the window now keeps track of the state corresponding to
scrollbars. This enables us to add scrollbars with e.g. one simple call
on divs:
```rust
div()
    .vertical_scrollbar(window, cx)
```
will add a scrollbar to the corresponding container. There are some more
improvements regarding tracking of scrollbar visibility settings (which
is now handled by a trait for each setting that supports this) as well
as reserving space.
Additionally, all needed stuff for layouting, catching events and
reserving space is also now managed by the scrollbar component instead.
This drastically reduces the amount of event listeners and makes
layouting of two scrollbars easier.

Furthermore, this paves the way for more improvements to scrollbars,
such as graceful auto-hide. Only downsight here is that we lose some
customizability in a few areas. However, once this lands, we gain the
ability to quickly follow these up without breaking stuff elsewhere.

This also already fixes a few bugs:
- Scrollbars no longer flicker on first render. 
- Auto-hide now properly works for all scrollbars.
- If the content size changes, the scrollbar is updated on the same
frame. Both of these happened because we were computing the scrollbar
sizes too early, causing us to use the sizes from the previous frame or
unitialized sizes.
- The project panel no longer jumps if scrolled all the way to the
bottom and the scrollbar actually auto-hides.

Still TODO:
- [x] Fix scrolling in the debugger memory view
- [x] Clean up some more in the scrollbar component and reduce clones
there
- [x] Ensure we don't over-notify the entity the scrollbar is rendered
within
- [x] Make sure auto-hide properly works for all cases
- [x] Check whether we want to implement the scrollbar trait for
`UniformList`s as well
    - ~~ [ ] Use for uniformlist where possible~~ Postponed
- [x] Improve layout for cases where we render both scrollbars.

Release Notes:

- N/A

2025-09-13 00:43:16 +02:00

docs

docs: Change render function's return type (#27229 )

2025-03-20 22:48:22 -06:00

examples

Extract a scheduler crate from GPUI to enable unified integration testing of client and server code (#37326 )

2025-09-04 17:14:53 +02:00

resources/windows

windows: Move manifest file to gpui (#11036 )

2024-04-26 13:56:48 -07:00

src

Refactor the scrollbar component (#36105 )

2025-09-13 00:43:16 +02:00

tests

Add #[serde(deny_unknown_fields)] to action structs that didn't have it (#33679 )

2025-07-01 00:20:02 +00:00

build.rs

Auto-fix clippy::collapsible_if violations (#36428 )

2025-08-19 13:27:24 +00:00

Cargo.toml

Update oo7 to 0.5.0 (#38043 )

2025-09-12 10:18:44 -06:00

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README.md

docs: Note edge case for macOS 26 (#37392 )

2025-09-02 19:40:07 -04:00

README.md

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. If you are on macOS 26 (Tahoe) you will need to use --features gpui/runtime_shaders or add the feature in the root Cargo.toml

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.