A prebuilt tool, bin/ludic-ui-preview (built by ludic-dev build, shipped beside ludic-lsp, run as
`ludic ui-preview [--font DIR]`): ludic.ui with a backend that records every draw call as a line,
and mock component classes the studio describes (load / model / calls). frame t runs ui_show at
interface time t; text is measured on the CPU with the game's font.json metrics; locale goes
through ludic.i18n; tree / box / rules inspect the frame. No game code, no GPU, no network. The wire
protocol is frozen as tools/ui-preview/protocol-v1.md; smoke.txt is a transcript to run.
ludic.ui gains, all additive: UiClass.make_of, UiBackend.said / emitted, UiRule.text / at (with
comment line breaks kept so rule lines count true, and a class's styles read under its .lss path),
and ui_root, ui_find, ui_rules_of, ui_rule_value, ui_building, ui_class, ui_class_load,
ui_file_forget, ui_errors_clear; ui_nine_cuts_into exported.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A `view Name { field = x; function q(..); on e(..) }` declaration is the one bridge between a
program and its UI: it writes view_<name>() -> UiView, whose model is a Value of every field and
whose call runs a query or an event by name.
ludic.ui is a template runtime:
- HTML-shaped XML screens and components, loaded at run time;
- {expression} bindings, if/else/each, props, slots, per-instance state;
- on-press / onclick actions (event, set, emit);
- component libraries (export="true", <import src as>).
Styling:
- stylesheets in <style> or importable .lss files (@import);
- CSS selectors (#id, .class, [attr=v], descendant and > combinators, :hover, :disabled,
:first-child, :last-child, :nth-child, :not) weighed by specificity;
- the box model and flex under CSS's property names.
Also:
- default parameters, and positional-then-named calls;
- Value gains a float kind;
- a function shadowing a runtime one is refused;
- an index is evaluated before the slice is read;
- runtime errors name the right file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
