Skeleton Widget

Overview

The Skeleton widget displays animated loading placeholders while content is being loaded. It supports different variants (text, circle, rectangle) with customizable dimensions and animation control.

Properties

• variant: The shape variant (.text, .circle, .rectangle)
• width: Width of the skeleton
• height: Height of the skeleton
• animate: Whether to animate the shimmer effect
• animation_offset: Current animation position
• base: Base widget state

Methods

• init(variant: SkeletonVariant): Creates a new skeleton with the specified variant
• withSize(width: u16, height: u16): Sets the skeleton dimensions
• withAnimate(animate: bool): Enables or disables animation
• update(): Updates the animation state
• render(ctx: *RenderContext): Renders the skeleton with shimmer effect

Events

None - this widget is not interactive.

Examples

Basic Rectangle Skeleton

const tui = @import("tui");
const Skeleton = tui.Skeleton;

var skeleton = Skeleton.init(.rectangle)
    .withSize(20, 1);

Animated Circle Skeleton

var skeleton = Skeleton.init(.circle)
    .withSize(10, 10)
    .withAnimate(true);

Text Loading Placeholder

var skeleton = Skeleton.init(.text)
    .withSize(30, 3);