# Objective
#### Goals
* Stop layout updates from overwriting `ScrollPosition`.
* Make `ScrollPosition` respect scale factor.
* Automatically allocate space for a scrollbar on an axis when
`OverflowAxis::Scroll` is set.
#### Non-Goals
* Overflow-auto support (I was certain Taffy had this already, but
apparently I was hallucinating).
* Implement any sort of scrollbar widgets.
* Stability (not needed because no overflow-auto support).
* Maybe in the future we could make a `ScrollbarWidth` enum to more
closely match the CSS API with its auto/narrow/none options. For now
`scrollbar_width` is just an `f32` which matches Taffy's API.
## Solution
* Layout updates no longer overwrite `ScrollPosition`'s value.
* Added the field `scrollbar_width: f32` to `Node`. This is sent to
`Taffy` which will automatically allocate space for scrollbars with this
width in the layout as needed.
* Added the fields `scrollbar_width: f32` and `scroll_position: Vec2` to
`ComputedNode`. These are updated automatically during layout.
* `ScrollPosition` now respects scale factor.
* `ScrollPosition` is no longer automatically added to every UI node
entity by `ui_layout_system`. If every node needs it, it should just be
required by (or be a field on) `Node`. Not sure if that's necessary or
not.
## Testing
For testing you can look at:
* The `scrollbars` example, which should work as before.
* The new example `drag_to_scroll`.
* The `scroll` example which automatically allocates space for
scrollbars on the left hand scrolling list. Did not implement actual
scrollbars so you'll just see a gap atm.
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Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com>
# Objective
Since we are planning to remove the need to derive both `Event` and
`EntityEvent` in 0.17 either way, I'm choosing to do the easy thing in
this PR so we can get the churn out of the way early.
Context from
[discord](https://discordapp.com/channels/691052431525675048/1383928409784193024/1393463673137401946).
Related to, and will conflict slightly with #20101.
## Solution
- Derive `Event` as part of the `EntityEvent` derive
- Remove any `Event` derives that were made unnecessary
- Update release notes
# Objective
The names of the variants of `InterpolationColorSpace` don't match the
corresponding `Color` variants, which could be potentially confusing.
For instance, `Color` has an `Oklaba` variant, in
`InterpolationColorSpace` it's called `OkLab`.
## Solution
Rename variants of `InterpolationColorSpace` to mirror the variants of
Color.
# Objective
> I think we should axe the shared `Event` trait entirely
It doesn't serve any functional purpose, and I don't think it's useful
pedagogically
@alice-i-cecile on discord
## Solution
- Remove `Event` as a supertrait of `BufferedEvent`
- Remove any `Event` derives that were made unnecessary
- Update release notes
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Co-authored-by: SpecificProtagonist <vincentjunge@posteo.net>
# Objective
A more robust scrolling example that doesn't require `Pickable {
should_block_lower: false, .. }` or `Pickable::IGNORE`, and properly
handles nested scrolling nodes.
The current example shows nested scrolling, but this is only functional
because the parent scrolls along a different axis than the children.
## Solution
Instead of only scrolling the top node that is found in the `HoverMap`
we trigger the `OnScroll` event on it.
This event then propagates up the hierarchy until any scrolling node
that has room to scroll along that axis consumes the event.
The now redundant `Pickable` components were removed from the example.
The “Nested Scrolling Lists” portion was adjusted to show the new
reliable nested scrolling.
## Testing
Check out the example. It should work just as it did before.
Notifications now include the source entity. This is useful for
callbacks that are responsible for more than one widget.
Part of #19236
This is an incremental change only: I have not altered the fundamental
nature of callbacks, as this is still in discussion. The only change
here is to include the source entity id with the notification.
The existing examples don't leverage this new field, but that will
change when I work on the color sliders PR.
I have been careful not to use the word "events" in describing the
notification message structs because they are not capital-E `Events` at
this time. That may change depending on the outcome of discussions.
@alice-i-cecile
# Objective
Add interpolation in HSL and HSV colour spaces for UI gradients.
## Solution
Added new variants to `InterpolationColorSpace`: `Hsl`, `HslLong`,
`Hsv`, and `HsvLong`, along with mix functions to the `gradients` shader
for each of them.
#### Limitations
* Didn't include increasing and decreasing path support, it's not
essential and can be done in a follow up if someone feels like it.
* The colour conversions should really be performed before the colours
are sent to the shader but it would need more changes and performance is
good enough for now.
## Testing
```cargo run --example gradients```
# Objective
Change `ScrollPosition` to newtype `Vec2`. It's easier to work with a
`Vec2` wrapper than individual fields.
I'm not sure why this wasn't newtyped to start with. Maybe the intent
was to support responsive coordinates eventually but that probably isn't
very useful or straightforward to implement. And even if we do want to
support responsive coords in the future, it can newtype `Val2`.
## Solution
Change `ScrollPosition` to newtype `Vec2`.
Also added some extra details to the doc comments.
## Testing
Try the `scroll` example.
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Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com>
# Objective
Because we want to be able to support more notification options in the
future (in addition to just using registered one-shot systems), the
`Option<SystemId>` notifications have been changed to a new enum,
`Callback`.
@alice-i-cecile
# Objective
When dragging the slider thumb the thumb is only highlighted while the
pointer is hovering the widget. If the pointer moves off the widget
during a drag the thumb reverts to its normal unhovered colour.
## Solution
Query for `CoreSliderDragState` in the slider update systems and set the
lighter color if the thumb is dragged or hovered.
# Objective
This PR introduces Bevy Feathers, an opinionated widget toolkit and
theming system intended for use by the Bevy Editor, World Inspector, and
other tools.
The `bevy_feathers` crate is incomplete and hidden behind an
experimental feature flag. The API is going to change significantly
before release.
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Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com>
# Objective
Fix https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/19617
# Solution
Add newlines before all impl blocks.
I suspect that at least some of these will be objectionable! If there's
a desired Bevy style for this then I'll update the PR. If not then we
can just close it - it's the work of a single find and replace.
Click to focus is now a global observer.
# Objective
Previously, the "click to focus" behavior was implemented in each
individual headless widget, producing redundant logic.
## Solution
The new scheme is to have a global observer which looks for pointer down
events and triggers an `AcquireFocus` event on the target. This event
bubbles until it finds an entity with `TabIndex`, and then focuses it.
## Testing
Tested the changes using the various examples that have focusable
widgets. (This will become easier to test when I add focus ring support
to the examples, but that's for another day. For now you just have to
know which keys to press.)
## Migration
This change is backwards-compatible. People who want the new behavior
will need to install the new plugin.
# Objective
Add support for interpolation in OKLab and OKLCH color spaces for UI
gradients.
## Solution
* New `InterpolationColorSpace` enum with `OkLab`, `OkLch`, `OkLchLong`,
`Srgb` and `LinearRgb` variants.
* Added a color space specialization to the gradients pipeline.
* Added support for interpolation in OkLCH and OkLAB color spaces to the
gradients shader. OKLCH interpolation supports both short and long hue
paths. This is mostly based on the conversion functions from
`bevy_color` except that interpolation in polar space uses radians.
* Added `color_space` fields to each gradient type.
## Testing
The `gradients` example has been updated to demonstrate the different
color interpolation methods.
Press space to cycle through the different options.
---
## Showcase

# Objective
This is part of the "core widgets" effort:
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/19236.
## Solution
This adds the "core checkbox" widget type.
## Testing
Tested using examples core_widgets and core_widgets_observers.
Note to reviewers: I reorganized the code in the examples, so the diffs
are large because of code moves.
# Objective
- Fixes#19627
- Tackles part of #19644
- Supersedes #19629
- `Window` has become a very very very big component
- As such, our change detection does not *really* work on it, as e.g.
moving the mouse will cause a change for the entire window
- We circumvented this with a cache
- But, some things *shouldn't* be cached as they can be changed from
outside the user's control, notably the cursor grab mode on web
- So, we need to disable the cache for that
- But because change detection is broken, that would result in the
cursor grab mode being set every frame the mouse is moved
- That is usually *not* what a dev wants, as it forces the cursor to be
locked even when the end-user is trying to free the cursor on the
browser
- the cache in this situation is invalid due to #8949
## Solution
- Split `Window` into multiple components, each with working change
detection
- Disable caching of the cursor grab mode
- This will only attempt to force the grab mode when the `CursorOptions`
were touched by the user, which is *much* rarer than simply moving the
mouse.
- If this PR is merged, I'll do the exact same for the other
constituents of `Window` as a follow-up
## Testing
- Ran all the changed examples
# Objective
Getting access to the original target of an entity-event is really
helpful when working with bubbled / propagated events.
`bevy_picking` special-cases this, but users have requested this for all
sorts of bubbled events.
The existing naming convention was also very confusing. Fixes
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/17112, but also see #18982.
## Solution
1. Rename `ObserverTrigger::target` -> `current_target`.
1. Store `original_target: Option<Entity>` in `ObserverTrigger`.
1. Wire it up so this field gets set correctly.
1. Remove the `target` field on the `Pointer` events from
`bevy_picking`.
Closes https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/18710, which attempted
the same thing. Thanks @emfax!
## Testing
I've modified an existing test to check that the entities returned
during event bubbling / propagation are correct.
## Notes to reviewers
It's a little weird / sad that you can no longer access this infromation
via the buffered events for `Pointer`. That said, you already couldn't
access any bubbled target. We should probably remove the `BufferedEvent`
form of `Pointer` to reduce confusion and overhead, but I didn't want to
do so here.
Observer events can be trivially converted into buffered events (write
an observer with an EventWriter), and I suspect that that is the better
migration if you want the controllable timing or performance
characteristics of buffered events for your specific use case.
## Future work
It would be nice to not store this data at all (and not expose any
methods) if propagation was disabled. That involves more trait
shuffling, and I don't think we should do it here for reviewability.
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Co-authored-by: Joona Aalto <jondolf.dev@gmail.com>
# Objective
Closes#19564.
The current `Event` trait looks like this:
```rust
pub trait Event: Send + Sync + 'static {
type Traversal: Traversal<Self>;
const AUTO_PROPAGATE: bool = false;
fn register_component_id(world: &mut World) -> ComponentId { ... }
fn component_id(world: &World) -> Option<ComponentId> { ... }
}
```
The `Event` trait is used by both buffered events
(`EventReader`/`EventWriter`) and observer events. If they are observer
events, they can optionally be targeted at specific `Entity`s or
`ComponentId`s, and can even be propagated to other entities.
However, there has long been a desire to split the trait semantically
for a variety of reasons, see #14843, #14272, and #16031 for discussion.
Some reasons include:
- It's very uncommon to use a single event type as both a buffered event
and targeted observer event. They are used differently and tend to have
distinct semantics.
- A common footgun is using buffered events with observers or event
readers with observer events, as there is no type-level error that
prevents this kind of misuse.
- #19440 made `Trigger::target` return an `Option<Entity>`. This
*seriously* hurts ergonomics for the general case of entity observers,
as you need to `.unwrap()` each time. If we could statically determine
whether the event is expected to have an entity target, this would be
unnecessary.
There's really two main ways that we can categorize events: push vs.
pull (i.e. "observer event" vs. "buffered event") and global vs.
targeted:
| | Push | Pull |
| ------------ | --------------- | --------------------------- |
| **Global** | Global observer | `EventReader`/`EventWriter` |
| **Targeted** | Entity observer | - |
There are many ways to approach this, each with their tradeoffs.
Ultimately, we kind of want to split events both ways:
- A type-level distinction between observer events and buffered events,
to prevent people from using the wrong kind of event in APIs
- A statically designated entity target for observer events to avoid
accidentally using untargeted events for targeted APIs
This PR achieves these goals by splitting event traits into `Event`,
`EntityEvent`, and `BufferedEvent`, with `Event` being the shared trait
implemented by all events.
## `Event`, `EntityEvent`, and `BufferedEvent`
`Event` is now a very simple trait shared by all events.
```rust
pub trait Event: Send + Sync + 'static {
// Required for observer APIs
fn register_component_id(world: &mut World) -> ComponentId { ... }
fn component_id(world: &World) -> Option<ComponentId> { ... }
}
```
You can call `trigger` for *any* event, and use a global observer for
listening to the event.
```rust
#[derive(Event)]
struct Speak {
message: String,
}
// ...
app.add_observer(|trigger: On<Speak>| {
println!("{}", trigger.message);
});
// ...
commands.trigger(Speak {
message: "Y'all like these reworked events?".to_string(),
});
```
To allow an event to be targeted at entities and even propagated
further, you can additionally implement the `EntityEvent` trait:
```rust
pub trait EntityEvent: Event {
type Traversal: Traversal<Self>;
const AUTO_PROPAGATE: bool = false;
}
```
This lets you call `trigger_targets`, and to use targeted observer APIs
like `EntityCommands::observe`:
```rust
#[derive(Event, EntityEvent)]
#[entity_event(traversal = &'static ChildOf, auto_propagate)]
struct Damage {
amount: f32,
}
// ...
let enemy = commands.spawn((Enemy, Health(100.0))).id();
// Spawn some armor as a child of the enemy entity.
// When the armor takes damage, it will bubble the event up to the enemy.
let armor_piece = commands
.spawn((ArmorPiece, Health(25.0), ChildOf(enemy)))
.observe(|trigger: On<Damage>, mut query: Query<&mut Health>| {
// Note: `On::target` only exists because this is an `EntityEvent`.
let mut health = query.get(trigger.target()).unwrap();
health.0 -= trigger.amount();
});
commands.trigger_targets(Damage { amount: 10.0 }, armor_piece);
```
> [!NOTE]
> You *can* still also trigger an `EntityEvent` without targets using
`trigger`. We probably *could* make this an either-or thing, but I'm not
sure that's actually desirable.
To allow an event to be used with the buffered API, you can implement
`BufferedEvent`:
```rust
pub trait BufferedEvent: Event {}
```
The event can then be used with `EventReader`/`EventWriter`:
```rust
#[derive(Event, BufferedEvent)]
struct Message(String);
fn write_hello(mut writer: EventWriter<Message>) {
writer.write(Message("I hope these examples are alright".to_string()));
}
fn read_messages(mut reader: EventReader<Message>) {
// Process all buffered events of type `Message`.
for Message(message) in reader.read() {
println!("{message}");
}
}
```
In summary:
- Need a basic event you can trigger and observe? Derive `Event`!
- Need the event to be targeted at an entity? Derive `EntityEvent`!
- Need the event to be buffered and support the
`EventReader`/`EventWriter` API? Derive `BufferedEvent`!
## Alternatives
I'll now cover some of the alternative approaches I have considered and
briefly explored. I made this section collapsible since it ended up
being quite long :P
<details>
<summary>Expand this to see alternatives</summary>
### 1. Unified `Event` Trait
One option is not to have *three* separate traits (`Event`,
`EntityEvent`, `BufferedEvent`), and to instead just use associated
constants on `Event` to determine whether an event supports targeting
and buffering or not:
```rust
pub trait Event: Send + Sync + 'static {
type Traversal: Traversal<Self>;
const AUTO_PROPAGATE: bool = false;
const TARGETED: bool = false;
const BUFFERED: bool = false;
fn register_component_id(world: &mut World) -> ComponentId { ... }
fn component_id(world: &World) -> Option<ComponentId> { ... }
}
```
Methods can then use bounds like `where E: Event<TARGETED = true>` or
`where E: Event<BUFFERED = true>` to limit APIs to specific kinds of
events.
This would keep everything under one `Event` trait, but I don't think
it's necessarily a good idea. It makes APIs harder to read, and docs
can't easily refer to specific types of events. You can also create
weird invariants: what if you specify `TARGETED = false`, but have
`Traversal` and/or `AUTO_PROPAGATE` enabled?
### 2. `Event` and `Trigger`
Another option is to only split the traits between buffered events and
observer events, since that is the main thing people have been asking
for, and they have the largest API difference.
If we did this, I think we would need to make the terms *clearly*
separate. We can't really use `Event` and `BufferedEvent` as the names,
since it would be strange that `BufferedEvent` doesn't implement
`Event`. Something like `ObserverEvent` and `BufferedEvent` could work,
but it'd be more verbose.
For this approach, I would instead keep `Event` for the current
`EventReader`/`EventWriter` API, and call the observer event a
`Trigger`, since the "trigger" terminology is already used in the
observer context within Bevy (both as a noun and a verb). This is also
what a long [bikeshed on
Discord](https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/749335865876021248/1298057661878898791)
seemed to land on at the end of last year.
```rust
// For `EventReader`/`EventWriter`
pub trait Event: Send + Sync + 'static {}
// For observers
pub trait Trigger: Send + Sync + 'static {
type Traversal: Traversal<Self>;
const AUTO_PROPAGATE: bool = false;
const TARGETED: bool = false;
fn register_component_id(world: &mut World) -> ComponentId { ... }
fn component_id(world: &World) -> Option<ComponentId> { ... }
}
```
The problem is that "event" is just a really good term for something
that "happens". Observers are rapidly becoming the more prominent API,
so it'd be weird to give them the `Trigger` name and leave the good
`Event` name for the less common API.
So, even though a split like this seems neat on the surface, I think it
ultimately wouldn't really work. We want to keep the `Event` name for
observer events, and there is no good alternative for the buffered
variant. (`Message` was suggested, but saying stuff like "sends a
collision message" is weird.)
### 3. `GlobalEvent` + `TargetedEvent`
What if instead of focusing on the buffered vs. observed split, we
*only* make a distinction between global and targeted events?
```rust
// A shared event trait to allow global observers to work
pub trait Event: Send + Sync + 'static {
fn register_component_id(world: &mut World) -> ComponentId { ... }
fn component_id(world: &World) -> Option<ComponentId> { ... }
}
// For buffered events and non-targeted observer events
pub trait GlobalEvent: Event {}
// For targeted observer events
pub trait TargetedEvent: Event {
type Traversal: Traversal<Self>;
const AUTO_PROPAGATE: bool = false;
}
```
This is actually the first approach I implemented, and it has the neat
characteristic that you can only use non-targeted APIs like `trigger`
with a `GlobalEvent` and targeted APIs like `trigger_targets` with a
`TargetedEvent`. You have full control over whether the entity should or
should not have a target, as they are fully distinct at the type-level.
However, there's a few problems:
- There is no type-level indication of whether a `GlobalEvent` supports
buffered events or just non-targeted observer events
- An `Event` on its own does literally nothing, it's just a shared trait
required to make global observers accept both non-targeted and targeted
events
- If an event is both a `GlobalEvent` and `TargetedEvent`, global
observers again have ambiguity on whether an event has a target or not,
undermining some of the benefits
- The names are not ideal
### 4. `Event` and `EntityEvent`
We can fix some of the problems of Alternative 3 by accepting that
targeted events can also be used in non-targeted contexts, and simply
having the `Event` and `EntityEvent` traits:
```rust
// For buffered events and non-targeted observer events
pub trait Event: Send + Sync + 'static {
fn register_component_id(world: &mut World) -> ComponentId { ... }
fn component_id(world: &World) -> Option<ComponentId> { ... }
}
// For targeted observer events
pub trait EntityEvent: Event {
type Traversal: Traversal<Self>;
const AUTO_PROPAGATE: bool = false;
}
```
This is essentially identical to this PR, just without a dedicated
`BufferedEvent`. The remaining major "problem" is that there is still
zero type-level indication of whether an `Event` event *actually*
supports the buffered API. This leads us to the solution proposed in
this PR, using `Event`, `EntityEvent`, and `BufferedEvent`.
</details>
## Conclusion
The `Event` + `EntityEvent` + `BufferedEvent` split proposed in this PR
aims to solve all the common problems with Bevy's current event model
while keeping the "weirdness" factor minimal. It splits in terms of both
the push vs. pull *and* global vs. targeted aspects, while maintaining a
shared concept for an "event".
### Why I Like This
- The term "event" remains as a single concept for all the different
kinds of events in Bevy.
- Despite all event types being "events", they use fundamentally
different APIs. Instead of assuming that you can use an event type with
any pattern (when only one is typically supported), you explicitly opt
in to each one with dedicated traits.
- Using separate traits for each type of event helps with documentation
and clearer function signatures.
- I can safely make assumptions on expected usage.
- If I see that an event is an `EntityEvent`, I can assume that I can
use `observe` on it and get targeted events.
- If I see that an event is a `BufferedEvent`, I can assume that I can
use `EventReader` to read events.
- If I see both `EntityEvent` and `BufferedEvent`, I can assume that
both APIs are supported.
In summary: This allows for a unified concept for events, while limiting
the different ways to use them with opt-in traits. No more guess-work
involved when using APIs.
### Problems?
- Because `BufferedEvent` implements `Event` (for more consistent
semantics etc.), you can still use all buffered events for non-targeted
observers. I think this is fine/good. The important part is that if you
see that an event implements `BufferedEvent`, you know that the
`EventReader`/`EventWriter` API should be supported. Whether it *also*
supports other APIs is secondary.
- I currently only support `trigger_targets` for an `EntityEvent`.
However, you can technically target components too, without targeting
any entities. I consider that such a niche and advanced use case that
it's not a huge problem to only support it for `EntityEvent`s, but we
could also split `trigger_targets` into `trigger_entities` and
`trigger_components` if we wanted to (or implement components as
entities :P).
- You can still trigger an `EntityEvent` *without* targets. I consider
this correct, since `Event` implements the non-targeted behavior, and
it'd be weird if implementing another trait *removed* behavior. However,
it does mean that global observers for entity events can technically
return `Entity::PLACEHOLDER` again (since I got rid of the
`Option<Entity>` added in #19440 for ergonomics). I think that's enough
of an edge case that it's not a huge problem, but it is worth keeping in
mind.
- ~~Deriving both `EntityEvent` and `BufferedEvent` for the same type
currently duplicates the `Event` implementation, so you instead need to
manually implement one of them.~~ Changed to always requiring `Event` to
be derived.
## Related Work
There are plans to implement multi-event support for observers,
especially for UI contexts. [Cart's
example](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/14649#issuecomment-2960402508)
API looked like this:
```rust
// Truncated for brevity
trigger: Trigger<(
OnAdd<Pressed>,
OnRemove<Pressed>,
OnAdd<InteractionDisabled>,
OnRemove<InteractionDisabled>,
OnInsert<Hovered>,
)>,
```
I believe this shouldn't be in conflict with this PR. If anything, this
PR might *help* achieve the multi-event pattern for entity observers
with fewer footguns: by statically enforcing that all of these events
are `EntityEvent`s in the context of `EntityCommands::observe`, we can
avoid misuse or weird cases where *some* events inside the trigger are
targeted while others are not.
# Objective
This is part of the "core widgets" effort: #19236.
## Solution
This PR adds the "core slider" widget to the collection.
## Testing
Tested using examples `core_widgets` and `core_widgets_observers`.
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Co-authored-by: ickshonpe <david.curthoys@googlemail.com>
# Objective
Currently, the observer API looks like this:
```rust
app.add_observer(|trigger: Trigger<Explode>| {
info!("Entity {} exploded!", trigger.target());
});
```
Future plans for observers also include "multi-event observers" with a
trigger that looks like this (see [Cart's
example](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/14649#issuecomment-2960402508)):
```rust
trigger: Trigger<(
OnAdd<Pressed>,
OnRemove<Pressed>,
OnAdd<InteractionDisabled>,
OnRemove<InteractionDisabled>,
OnInsert<Hovered>,
)>,
```
In scenarios like this, there is a lot of repetition of `On`. These are
expected to be very high-traffic APIs especially in UI contexts, so
ergonomics and readability are critical.
By renaming `Trigger` to `On`, we can make these APIs read more cleanly
and get rid of the repetition:
```rust
app.add_observer(|trigger: On<Explode>| {
info!("Entity {} exploded!", trigger.target());
});
```
```rust
trigger: On<(
Add<Pressed>,
Remove<Pressed>,
Add<InteractionDisabled>,
Remove<InteractionDisabled>,
Insert<Hovered>,
)>,
```
Names like `On<Add<Pressed>>` emphasize the actual event listener nature
more than `Trigger<OnAdd<Pressed>>`, and look cleaner. This *also* frees
up the `Trigger` name if we want to use it for the observer event type,
splitting them out from buffered events (bikeshedding this is out of
scope for this PR though).
For prior art:
[`bevy_eventlistener`](https://github.com/aevyrie/bevy_eventlistener)
used
[`On`](https://docs.rs/bevy_eventlistener/latest/bevy_eventlistener/event_listener/struct.On.html)
for its event listener type. Though in our case, the observer is the
event listener, and `On` is just a type containing information about the
triggered event.
## Solution
Steal from `bevy_event_listener` by @aevyrie and use `On`.
- Rename `Trigger` to `On`
- Rename `OnAdd` to `Add`
- Rename `OnInsert` to `Insert`
- Rename `OnReplace` to `Replace`
- Rename `OnRemove` to `Remove`
- Rename `OnDespawn` to `Despawn`
## Discussion
### Naming Conflicts??
Using a name like `Add` might initially feel like a very bad idea, since
it risks conflict with `core::ops::Add`. However, I don't expect this to
be a big problem in practice.
- You rarely need to actually implement the `Add` trait, especially in
modules that would use the Bevy ECS.
- In the rare cases where you *do* get a conflict, it is very easy to
fix by just disambiguating, for example using `ops::Add`.
- The `Add` event is a struct while the `Add` trait is a trait (duh), so
the compiler error should be very obvious.
For the record, renaming `OnAdd` to `Add`, I got exactly *zero* errors
or conflicts within Bevy itself. But this is of course not entirely
representative of actual projects *using* Bevy.
You might then wonder, why not use `Added`? This would conflict with the
`Added` query filter, so it wouldn't work. Additionally, the current
naming convention for observer events does not use past tense.
### Documentation
This does make documentation slightly more awkward when referring to
`On` or its methods. Previous docs often referred to `Trigger::target`
or "sends a `Trigger`" (which is... a bit strange anyway), which would
now be `On::target` and "sends an observer `Event`".
You can see the diff in this PR to see some of the effects. I think it
should be fine though, we may just need to reword more documentation to
read better.
# Objective
- Update the scroll example to use the latest API.
## Solution
- It now uses the 'children![]' API.
## Testing
- I manually verified that the scrolling was working
## Limitations
- Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to spawn observers targeting the
entity inside the "fn() -> impl Bundle" function.
# Objective
#19366 implemented core button widgets, which included the `Depressed`
state component.
`Depressed` was chosen instead of `Pressed` to avoid conflict with the
`Pointer<Pressed>` event, but it is problematic and awkward in many
ways:
- Using the word "depressed" for such a high-traffic type is not great
due to the obvious connection to "depressed" as in depression.
- "Depressed" is not what I would search for if I was looking for a
component like this, and I'm not aware of any other engine or UI
framework using the term.
- `Depressed` is not a very natural pair to the `Pointer<Pressed>`
event.
- It might be because I'm not a native English speaker, but I have very
rarely heard someone say "a button is depressed". Seeing it, my mind
initially goes from "depression??" to "oh, de-pressed, meaning released"
and definitely not "is pressed", even though that *is* also a valid
meaning for it.
A related problem is that the current `Pointer<Pressed>` and
`Pointer<Released>` event names use a different verb tense than all of
our other observer events such as `Pointer<Click>` or
`Pointer<DragStart>`. By fixing this and renaming `Pressed` (and
`Released`), we can then use `Pressed` instead of `Depressed` for the
state component.
Additionally, the `IsHovered` and `IsDirectlyHovered` components added
in #19366 use an inconsistent naming; the other similar components don't
use an `Is` prefix. It also makes query filters like `Has<IsHovered>`
and `With<IsHovered>` a bit more awkward.
This is partially related to Cart's [picking concept
proposal](https://gist.github.com/cart/756e48a149db2838028be600defbd24a?permalink_comment_id=5598154).
## Solution
- Rename `Pointer<Pressed>` to `Pointer<Press>`
- Rename `Pointer<Released>` to `Pointer<Release>`
- Rename `Depressed` to `Pressed`
- Rename `IsHovered` to `Hovered`
- Rename `IsDirectlyHovered` to `DirectlyHovered`
# Objective
Part of #19236
## Solution
Adds a new `bevy_core_widgets` crate containing headless widget
implementations. This PR adds a single `CoreButton` widget, more widgets
to be added later once this is approved.
## Testing
There's an example, ui/core_widgets.
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# Objective
Rename `JustifyText`:
* The name `JustifyText` is just ugly.
* It's inconsistent since no other `bevy_text` types have a `Text-`
suffix, only prefix.
* It's inconsistent with the other text layout enum `Linebreak` which
doesn't have a prefix or suffix.
Fixes#19521.
## Solution
Rename `JustifyText` to `Justify`.
Without other context, it's natural to assume the name `Justify` refers
to text justification.
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# Objective
`Entity::PLACEHOLDER` acts as a magic number that will *probably* never
really exist, but it certainly could. And, `Entity` has a niche, so the
only reason to use `PLACEHOLDER` is as an alternative to `MaybeUninit`
that trades safety risks for logic risks.
As a result, bevy has generally advised against using `PLACEHOLDER`, but
we still use if for a lot internally. This pr starts removing internal
uses of it, starting from observers.
## Solution
Change all trigger target related types from `Entity` to
`Option<Entity>`
Small migration guide to come.
## Testing
CI
## Future Work
This turned a lot of code from
```rust
trigger.target()
```
to
```rust
trigger.target().unwrap()
```
The extra panic is no worse than before; it's just earlier than
panicking after passing the placeholder to something else.
But this is kinda annoying.
I would like to add a `TriggerMode` or something to `Event` that would
restrict what kinds of targets can be used for that event. Many events
like `Removed` etc, are always triggered with a target. We can make
those have a way to assume Some, etc. But I wanted to save that for a
future pr.
# Objective
Add specialized UI transform `Component`s and fix some related problems:
* Animating UI elements by modifying the `Transform` component of UI
nodes doesn't work very well because `ui_layout_system` overwrites the
translations each frame. The `overflow_debug` example uses a horrible
hack where it copies the transform into the position that'll likely
cause a panic if any users naively copy it.
* Picking ignores rotation and scaling and assumes UI nodes are always
axis aligned.
* The clipping geometry stored in `CalculatedClip` is wrong for rotated
and scaled elements.
* Transform propagation is unnecessary for the UI, the transforms can be
updated during layout updates.
* The UI internals use both object-centered and top-left-corner-based
coordinates systems for UI nodes. Depending on the context you have to
add or subtract the half-size sometimes before transforming between
coordinate spaces. We should just use one system consistantly so that
the transform can always be directly applied.
* `Transform` doesn't support responsive coordinates.
## Solution
* Unrequire `Transform` from `Node`.
* New components `UiTransform`, `UiGlobalTransform`:
- `Node` requires `UiTransform`, `UiTransform` requires
`UiGlobalTransform`
- `UiTransform` is a 2d-only equivalent of `Transform` with a
translation in `Val`s.
- `UiGlobalTransform` newtypes `Affine2` and is updated in
`ui_layout_system`.
* New helper functions on `ComputedNode` for mapping between viewport
and local node space.
* The cursor position is transformed to local node space during picking
so that it respects rotations and scalings.
* To check if the cursor hovers a node recursively walk up the tree to
the root checking if any of the ancestor nodes clip the point at the
cursor. If the point is clipped the interaction is ignored.
* Use object-centered coordinates for UI nodes.
* `RelativeCursorPosition`'s coordinates are now object-centered with
(0,0) at the the center of the node and the corners at (±0.5, ±0.5).
* Replaced the `normalized_visible_node_rect: Rect` field of
`RelativeCursorPosition` with `cursor_over: bool`, which is set to true
when the cursor is over an unclipped point on the node. The visible area
of the node is not necessarily a rectangle, so the previous
implementation didn't work.
This should fix all the logical bugs with non-axis aligned interactions
and clipping. Rendering still needs changes but they are far outside the
scope of this PR.
Tried and abandoned two other approaches:
* New `transform` field on `Node`, require `GlobalTransform` on `Node`,
and unrequire `Transform` on `Node`. Unrequiring `Transform` opts out of
transform propagation so there is then no conflict with updating the
`GlobalTransform` in `ui_layout_system`. This was a nice change in its
simplicity but potentially confusing for users I think, all the
`GlobalTransform` docs mention `Transform` and having special rules for
how it's updated just for the UI is unpleasently surprising.
* New `transform` field on `Node`. Unrequire `Transform` on `Node`. New
`transform: Affine2` field on `ComputedNode`.
This was okay but I think most users want a separate specialized UI
transform components. The fat `ComputedNode` doesn't work well with
change detection.
Fixes#18929, #18930
## Testing
There is an example you can look at:
```
cargo run --example ui_transform
```
Sometimes in the example if you press the rotate button couple of times
the first glyph from the top label disappears , I'm not sure what's
causing it yet but I don't think it's related to this PR.
## Migration Guide
New specialized 2D UI transform components `UiTransform` and
`UiGlobalTransform`. `UiTransform` is a 2d-only equivalent of
`Transform` with a translation in `Val`s. `UiGlobalTransform` newtypes
`Affine2` and is updated in `ui_layout_system`.
`Node` now requires `UiTransform` instead of `Transform`. `UiTransform`
requires `UiGlobalTransform`.
In previous versions of Bevy `ui_layout_system` would overwrite UI
node's `Transform::translation` each frame. `UiTransform`s aren't
overwritten and there is no longer any need for systems that cache and
rewrite the transform for translated UI elements.
`RelativeCursorPosition`'s coordinates are now object-centered with
(0,0) at the the center of the node and the corners at (±0.5, ±0.5). Its
`normalized_visible_node_rect` field has been removed and replaced with
a new `cursor_over: bool` field which is set to true when the cursor is
hovering an unclipped area of the UI node.
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# Objective
When running the `gradient` example, part of the content doesn't fit
within the initial window:

The UI requires 1830×930 pixels, but the initial window size is
1280×720.
## Solution
Make ui elements smaller:

Alternative: Use a larger initial window size. I decided against this
because that would make the examples less uniform, make the code less
focused on gradients and not help on web.
# Objective
Minimal effort to address feedback here:
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/19345#discussion_r2107844018
more thoroughly.
## Solution
- Remove hardcoded label string comparisons and make more use of the new
enum added during review
- Resist temptation to let this snowball this into a huge refactor
- Maybe come back later for a few other small improvements
## Testing
`cargo run --example box_shadow`
# Objective
Renames `Timer::finished` and `Timer::paused` to `Timer::is_finished`
and `Timer::is_paused` to align the public APIs for `Time`, `Timer`, and
`Stopwatch`.
Fixes#19110
# Objective
Fixes#19385
Note: this has shader errors due to #19383 and should probably be merged
after #19384
## Solution
- Move the example to the UI testbed
- Adjust label contents and cell size so that every test case fits on
the screen
- Minor tidying, slightly less harsh colors while preserving the
intentional debug coloring
## Testing
`cargo run --example testbed_ui`

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# Objective
- Addresses the previous example's lack of visual appeal and clarity. It
was missing labels for clear distinction of the shadow settings used on
each of the shapes. The suggestion in the linked issue was to either
just visually update and add labels or to collapse example to a single
node with adjustable settings.
- Fixes#19240
## Solution
- Replace the previous static example with a single, central node with
adjustable settings as per issue suggestion.
- Implement button-based setting adjustments. Unfortunately slider
widgets don't seem available yet and I didn't want to further bloat the
example.
- Improve overall aesthetics of the example -- although color pallette
could still be improved. flat gray tones are probably not the best
choice as a contrast to the shadow, but the white border does help in
that aspect.
- Dynamically recolor shadows for visual clarity when increasing shadow
count.
- Add Adjustable Settings:
- Shape selection
- Shadow X/Y offset, blur, spread, and count
- Add Reset button to restore default settings
The disadvantage of this solution is that the old example code would
have probably been easier to digest as the new example is quite bloated
in comparison. Alternatively I could also just implement labels and fix
aesthetics of the old example without adding functionality for
adjustable settings, _but_ I personally feel like interactive examples
are more engaging to users.
## Testing
- Did you test these changes? If so, how? `cargo run --example
box_shadow` and functionality of all features of the example.
- Are there any parts that need more testing? Not that I am aware of.
- How can other people (reviewers) test your changes? Is there anything
specific they need to know? Not really, it should be pretty
straightforward just running the new example and testing the feats.
---
## Showcase


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# Objective
Improve the `tab_navigation` example.
## Solution
* Set different `TabIndex`s for the buttons of each group.
* Label each button with its associated `TabIndex`.
* Reduce the code duplication using a loop.
I tried to flatten it further using the new spawning APIs and
`children!` macro but not sure what the current best way to attach the
observers is.
# Objective
The new viewport example allocates a texture in main memory, even though
it's only needed on the GPU. Also fix an unnecessary warning when a
viewport's texture doesn't exist CPU-side.
## Testing
Run the `viewport_node` example.
# Objective
allow specifying the left/top/right/bottom border colors separately for
ui elements
fixes#14773
## Solution
- change `BorderColor` to
```rs
pub struct BorderColor {
pub left: Color,
pub top: Color,
pub right: Color,
pub bottom: Color,
}
```
- generate one ui node per distinct border color, set flags for the
active borders
- render only the active borders
i chose to do this rather than adding multiple colors to the
ExtractedUiNode in order to minimize the impact for the common case
where all border colors are the same.
## Testing
modified the `borders` example to use separate colors:

the behaviour is a bit weird but it mirrors html/css border behaviour.
---
## Migration:
To keep the existing behaviour, just change `BorderColor(color)` into
`BorderColor::all(color)`.
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# Objective
Accessibility features don't work with the UI `button` example because
`InputFocus` must be set for the accessibility systems to recognise the
button.
Fixes#18760
## Solution
* Set the button entity as the `InputFocus` when it is hovered or
pressed.
* Call `set_changed` on the `Button` component when the button's state
changes to hovered or pressed (the accessibility system's only update
the button's state when the `Button` component is marked as changed).
## Testing
Install NVDA, it should say "hover" when the button is hovered and
"pressed" when the button is pressed.
The bounds of the accessibility node are reported incorrectly. I thought
we fixed this, I'll take another look at it. It's not a problem with
this PR.
# Objective
Allowing drawing of UI nodes with a gradient instead of a flat color.
## Solution
The are three gradient structs corresponding to the three types of
gradients supported: `LinearGradient`, `ConicGradient` and
`RadialGradient`. These are then wrapped in a `Gradient` enum
discriminator which has `Linear`, `Conic` and `Radial` variants.
Each gradient type consists of the geometric properties for that
gradient and a list of color stops.
Color stops consist of a color, a position or angle and an optional
hint. If no position is specified for a stop, it's evenly spaced between
the previous and following stops. Color stop positions are absolute, if
you specify a list of stops:
```vec


Conic gradients can be used to draw simple pie charts like in CSS:

# Objective
Add a viewport widget.
## Solution
- Add a new `ViewportNode` component to turn a UI node into a viewport.
- Add `viewport_picking` to pass pointer inputs from other pointers to
the viewport's pointer.
- Notably, this is somewhat functionally different from the viewport
widget in [the editor
prototype](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy_editor_prototypes/pull/110/files#L124),
which just moves the pointer's location onto the render target. Viewport
widgets have their own pointers.
- Care is taken to handle dragging in and out of viewports.
- Add `update_viewport_render_target_size` to update the viewport node's
render target's size if the node size changes.
- Feature gate picking-related viewport items behind
`bevy_ui_picking_backend`.
## Testing
I've been using an example I made to test the widget (and added it as
`viewport_node`):
<details><summary>Code</summary>
```rust
//! A simple scene to demonstrate spawning a viewport widget. The example will demonstrate how to
//! pick entities visible in the widget's view.
use bevy::picking::pointer::PointerInteraction;
use bevy::prelude::*;
use bevy::ui::widget::ViewportNode;
use bevy::{
image::{TextureFormatPixelInfo, Volume},
window::PrimaryWindow,
};
use bevy_render::{
camera::RenderTarget,
render_resource::{
Extent3d, TextureDescriptor, TextureDimension, TextureFormat, TextureUsages,
},
};
fn main() {
App::new()
.add_plugins((DefaultPlugins, MeshPickingPlugin))
.add_systems(Startup, test)
.add_systems(Update, draw_mesh_intersections)
.run();
}
#[derive(Component, Reflect, Debug)]
#[reflect(Component)]
struct Shape;
fn test(
mut commands: Commands,
window: Query<&Window, With<PrimaryWindow>>,
mut images: ResMut<Assets<Image>>,
mut meshes: ResMut<Assets<Mesh>>,
mut materials: ResMut<Assets<StandardMaterial>>,
) {
// Spawn a UI camera
commands.spawn(Camera3d::default());
// Set up an texture for the 3D camera to render to
let window = window.get_single().unwrap();
let window_size = window.physical_size();
let size = Extent3d {
width: window_size.x,
height: window_size.y,
..default()
};
let format = TextureFormat::Bgra8UnormSrgb;
let image = Image {
data: Some(vec![0; size.volume() * format.pixel_size()]),
texture_descriptor: TextureDescriptor {
label: None,
size,
dimension: TextureDimension::D2,
format,
mip_level_count: 1,
sample_count: 1,
usage: TextureUsages::TEXTURE_BINDING
| TextureUsages::COPY_DST
| TextureUsages::RENDER_ATTACHMENT,
view_formats: &[],
},
..default()
};
let image_handle = images.add(image);
// Spawn the 3D camera
let camera = commands
.spawn((
Camera3d::default(),
Camera {
// Render this camera before our UI camera
order: -1,
target: RenderTarget::Image(image_handle.clone().into()),
..default()
},
))
.id();
// Spawn something for the 3D camera to look at
commands
.spawn((
Mesh3d(meshes.add(Cuboid::new(5.0, 5.0, 5.0))),
MeshMaterial3d(materials.add(Color::WHITE)),
Transform::from_xyz(0.0, 0.0, -10.0),
Shape,
))
// We can observe pointer events on our objects as normal, the
// `bevy::ui::widgets::viewport_picking` system will take care of ensuring our viewport
// clicks pass through
.observe(on_drag_cuboid);
// Spawn our viewport widget
commands
.spawn((
Node {
position_type: PositionType::Absolute,
top: Val::Px(50.0),
left: Val::Px(50.0),
width: Val::Px(200.0),
height: Val::Px(200.0),
border: UiRect::all(Val::Px(5.0)),
..default()
},
BorderColor(Color::WHITE),
ViewportNode::new(camera),
))
.observe(on_drag_viewport);
}
fn on_drag_viewport(drag: Trigger<Pointer<Drag>>, mut node_query: Query<&mut Node>) {
if matches!(drag.button, PointerButton::Secondary) {
let mut node = node_query.get_mut(drag.target()).unwrap();
if let (Val::Px(top), Val::Px(left)) = (node.top, node.left) {
node.left = Val::Px(left + drag.delta.x);
node.top = Val::Px(top + drag.delta.y);
};
}
}
fn on_drag_cuboid(drag: Trigger<Pointer<Drag>>, mut transform_query: Query<&mut Transform>) {
if matches!(drag.button, PointerButton::Primary) {
let mut transform = transform_query.get_mut(drag.target()).unwrap();
transform.rotate_y(drag.delta.x * 0.02);
transform.rotate_x(drag.delta.y * 0.02);
}
}
fn draw_mesh_intersections(
pointers: Query<&PointerInteraction>,
untargetable: Query<Entity, Without<Shape>>,
mut gizmos: Gizmos,
) {
for (point, normal) in pointers
.iter()
.flat_map(|interaction| interaction.iter())
.filter_map(|(entity, hit)| {
if !untargetable.contains(*entity) {
hit.position.zip(hit.normal)
} else {
None
}
})
{
gizmos.arrow(point, point + normal.normalize() * 0.5, Color::WHITE);
}
}
```
</details>
## Showcase
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/39f44eac-2c2a-4fd9-a606-04171f806dc1
## Open Questions
- <del>Not sure whether the entire widget should be feature gated behind
`bevy_ui_picking_backend` or not? I chose a partial approach since maybe
someone will want to use the widget without any picking being
involved.</del>
- <del>Is `PickSet::Last` the expected set for `viewport_picking`?
Perhaps `PickSet::Input` is more suited.</del>
- <del>Can `dragged_last_frame` be removed in favor of a better dragging
check? Another option that comes to mind is reading `Drag` and `DragEnd`
events, but this seems messier.</del>
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Co-authored-by: François Mockers <mockersf@gmail.com>
# Objective
Refactor
[`examples/ui/borders.rs`](7f0490655c/examples/ui/borders.rs)
to use the new spawning/hierarchy APIs in 0.16.
## Solution
This refactor reduces the number of `.spawn` calls from about 16 to 2,
using one spawn for each major feature:
* camera2d
* ui layout
The `Children::spawn` relationship API is used to take advantage of
`SpawnIter` for the borders examples in each block.
Each block of examples now returns a Bundle into its respective
variable, which is then used in combination with the new `label` widget
which makes use of the new `impl Bundle` return capability. This allows
the ui layout to use a single `.spawn` with the `children!` macro.
The blocks of examples are still in separate variables because it felt
like a useful way to organize it still, even without needing to spawn at
those locations.
Functionality of the demo hasn't changed, this is just an API/code
update.
## Showcase

<details>
<summary>Before screenshot</summary>

</details>
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# Objective
Add background colors for text.
Fixes#18889
## Solution
New component `TextBackgroundColor`, add it to any UI `Text` or
`TextSpan` entity to add a background color to its text.
New field on `TextLayoutInfo` `section_rects` holds the list of bounding
rects for each text section.
The bounding rects are generated in `TextPipeline::queue_text` during
text layout, `extract_text_background_colors` extracts the colored
background rects for rendering.
Didn't include `Text2d` support because of z-order issues.
The section rects can also be used to implement interactions targeting
individual text sections.
## Testing
Includes a basic example that can be used for testing:
```
cargo run --example text_background_colors
```
---
## Showcase

Using a proportional font with kerning the results aren't so tidy (since
the bounds of adjacent glyphs can overlap) but it still works fine:

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Co-authored-by: Gilles Henaux <ghx_github_priv@fastmail.com>
# Objective
Tripped over the `directional_navigation` one recently while playing
around with that example.
Examples should import items from `bevy` rather than the sub-crates
directly.
## Solution
Use paths re-exported by `bevy`.
## Testing
```
cargo run --example log_diagnostics
cargo run --example directional_navigation
cargo run --example custom_projection
```
# Objective
The goal of `bevy_platform_support` is to provide a set of platform
agnostic APIs, alongside platform-specific functionality. This is a high
traffic crate (providing things like HashMap and Instant). Especially in
light of https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/18799, it
deserves a friendlier / shorter name.
Given that it hasn't had a full release yet, getting this change in
before Bevy 0.16 makes sense.
## Solution
- Rename `bevy_platform_support` to `bevy_platform`.