Create all `Ui`:s from a parent `Ui`

[emilk]

Summary

I would like each egui viewport (read: native window) to have a single root Ui that covers the entire available space. The user can then add egui::Windows to this Ui, as well as sub-divide it using panels. The root Ui would have no background color, and no margin. To get that, the user can use a Frame.

Benefits

The Context::create_viewport* functions coming in https://github.com/emilk/egui/pull/3172 would likewise return a Ui. If possible, these Uis will fill a new native window, and otherwise they will instead fill an egui::Window floating on top of the parent viewport. This makes their interfacer a lot simpler. Basically ctx.create_viewport(…, |ui| ui.label("Hello World")); would show the new ui either in a separate native window (if the backend supports it), or fall back to a egui::Window if not.

We can also simplify panels. CentralPanel can be removed (replaced by Frame) and the show/show_inside dichotomy would disappear.

Area and Window should float on top of the entire viewport by default, and a user should be able to create them at any time.

Current behavior

There are currently a few different ways to create a Ui from a Context:

• Panels (CentralPanel, SidePanel, TopBottomPanel)
• Area an Window
• Ui::new

For instance, SidePanel::left(…).show(ctx, |ui| { … }). The panels also have special show_inside functions to use them inside another Ui: SidePanel::left(…).show_inside(ui, |ui| { … }).

[konkitoman]

From my point of view the Context::create_viewport* is like a internal! The egui::Window should have an embedded property and based on that try to create a viewport!

[invokermain]

This sounds really useful, would this allow crates to ship a egui 'ui' that the user can then provide a window/viewport to render it in?