1# @ajax/tui-layout
2
3Splitting a rectangle by constraints (Length, Min, Max, Percentage, Ratio, Fill) with flex and spacing, solved exactly as ratatui's Layout.
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5Part of the C port of [alpha-rust-mesh](https://github.com/rsafier/alpha-rust-mesh)'s `mesh-top`, a
6terminal UI built with ratatui: these packages reproduce what ratatui and its Unicode crates compute,
7so a frame drawn in C is the same, cell for cell, as the Rust one.
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9## Ported from
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11[alpha-rust-mesh](https://github.com/rsafier/alpha-rust-mesh) (Richard Safier, MIT)'s `mesh-top` uses it through ratatui; the C follows ratatui-core 0.1 `layout/layout.rs`: constraints, flex, spacing, margins, the strengths and the order of every Cassowary constraint, and the 512-entry layout cache.
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13## Tests
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15`tests/basics.c`; `tests/random.c` replays 3000 random layouts from `tests/data/layouts.txt` (ratatui settles exact ties by HashMap order, which varies by process: the 31 layouts that vary across Rust runs list every result seen, two hand-checked as exact ties).
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17## Licence
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19MIT. See the repository's LICENSE.