Graphics

Notch

Explore the interactive notched menu bar, bulge navigation, angle cuts and scooped dock from the Notch example.

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Notch interaction recorded with the Blinc headless renderer
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Usage and properties

The original Notch example combines concave corners, bulges, cuts, peaks and a scooped dock. Hover the menu icons to reveal their status; the middle examples scroll in shorter viewports.

Use the installation guide to create a Blinc application. This widget is available from blinc_layout; the demo uses the same Hybrid theme as the component library. Create the fixture bindings once, and return the demo from your UI builder. Values marked Bound accept Signal/Computed sources where the API supports them; structural options configure the component at construction.

PropertyTypeUpdate modelThis example
concave_top / rounded_bottomf32Construction32 / 16
center_scoop_top_roundedwidth, depth, radiusConstruction80, 42, 8

Keyboard and interaction

Informational content; no activation or Tab stop is required.

Customizing it

Add application CSS after the default component layer. These selectors are the restyling surface for this component:

  • .demo-notch-icon
  • .demo-notch-status
  • .demo-notch-dock
  • .demo-notch-stage
  • .demo-notch-label
  • .demo-notch-glyph

Theme and component variables: --gallery-notch-radius (8–40px), --gallery-notch-bar and --gallery-notch-active. Shape tokens are read when the UI refreshes, keeping the existing spring and hover behaviour..

Built-in themes

The Live theme control installs Blinc's own theme bundles, including their colours, focus rings, corner shapes and motion tokens.

pub fn theme_bundle_for(name: &str) -> blinc_theme::ThemeBundle {
    match name {
        "restrained" => blinc_theme::RestrainedTheme::bundle(),
        "expressive" => blinc_theme::ExpressiveTheme::bundle(),
        _ => blinc_theme::HybridTheme::bundle(),
    }
    .with_css(blinc_cn::cn_styles::CN_STYLES)
}

Download the default widget and component stylesheets. Sample assets and licenses are available in the asset guide.

Documentation

From the canonical component guide.

notch creates concave, rounded and stepped corners. Shape is configured by the builder; keep the surface's colours in CSS.

use blinc::layout::prelude::*;

let fill = blinc::layout::css_parser::active_stylesheet()
    .and_then(|sheet| sheet.resolve_color("var(--shaped-panel-fill)"))
    .unwrap_or(blinc::core::Color::TRANSPARENT);
let panel = notch().w(280.0).h(160.0)
    .concave_tr(32.0).rounded_bl(24.0)
    .bg(fill)
    .child(div().child(text("A different kind of corner")));
:root { --shaped-panel-fill: var(--primary); }

The custom canvas fill reads the application’s root variable when the widget is built. Its children are regular elements with their own classes and bindings. A shaped surface has no keyboard action unless you add interactive content to it.

Interactive gallery

The component page adapts examples/blinc_app_examples/examples/notch_demo.rs: hover the menu icons to reveal and slide the concave dropdown. The navigation bulge, angle cuts, peak and scooped dock demonstrate different edge treatments in context.

The gallery exposes --gallery-notch-radius (8–40px), --gallery-notch-bar and --gallery-notch-active as CSS variables. Applying CSS refreshes the geometry while preserving the current demo instance:

:root {
    --gallery-notch-radius: 24px;
    --gallery-notch-active: var(--success);
}

Platforms and version

The component API is available in Blinc 0.6.0. The Live example runs in a dedicated worker and requires a compatible GPU surface. Preview and Code remain available when Live cannot start. The canvas has a descriptive label; a full screen-reader DOM mirror is not provided. The gallery integration is based on revision e2e55c24e078.

Recordings and live demos use the default Hybrid theme with bundled Noto Sans. The recording uses a 680 × 560 logical viewport at twice that resolution. Live follows its container and actual display density. Source base revision · Exact build source · Artifact versions and checksums · Font license.