This repository hosts a simple UI engine written in the Blombly programming language.

Add the following automation to ones of a main file. Reminder that Blombly's security does not allow setting permissions elsewhere, but you can have multiple main files, one of which contains the build system. The checksum="*"argument prevents overwritting existing files. Remove it to check for updates on every run, or replace it with a hash of a specific version.

!modify ".cache/"
!modify "assets/"
!access "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maniospas/"

!comptime bb.os.transfer(from="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maniospas/uibb/refs/heads/main/ui.bb"; to=".cache/ui.bb"; checksum="*");
!include ".cache/ui"

The above snippet downloads and includes the .cache/ui.bb file in your project at compile time; no permissions are needed when you run the produced executable. In turn, this file creates an assets/ directory at compile time and downloads assets there. If you create and distribute .bbvm files containing an application, make sure to also distribute that directory. Permissions to access the directory are not needed, because Blombly always grants read access to the directory and sub-directories of the running main file.

Reminder: You can deploy and rename the Blombly executable as long as you donnot modify it. Prefer having your main file actually be called main.bb because the language will automatically look for that if no options is provided, for example if your users double-click on it.