Ratrioshka

The Rat-in-Rat experience.

A Ratatui widget that lets you add Ratatui to your Ratatui.

This thing runs a separate terminal with soft-ratatui backend, renders it to a pixel buffer and displays the resulting image as a Ratatui widget using ratatui-image.

Usage

Don't. This is not published to crates.io for good reasons. The code is terrible, this was coded at 2 AM during a Linux conference. Additionally, I don't see any good use case for such thing.

...but I can't stop you:

fn render(frame: &mut Frame) {

    let inner_tui = Ratrioshka::new(|inner_frame| {
        inner_frame.render_widget(Block::bordered().title("Inner TUI"), inner_frame.area())
    });

    let outer_block = Block::bordered().title("Outer TUI");

    frame.render_widget(&outer_block, frame.area());
    frame.render_widget(
        inner_tui,
        outer_block.inner(frame.area())
    )
}

Examples

cargo run --example basic