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KitDrawer

Side modal panel bounded by its host window’s width.

Side modal panel bounded by its host window’s width.
Native screenshot of the same example, rendered with Skia.

Mount it at the window root after scrolling content and give it the full viewport. Connect inherited dismiss and focus-next, then restore-focus, to the modal stack and focus registry.

The panel anchors to the trailing edge and bounds panel-width by available width. Opening focuses Close; the host must register fields and restore the exact opener on closure.

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Complete example

This complete Slint file is a visual composition used to produce the screenshot above. Internal strings without a label property retain the kit’s default language; system dialogs follow the host platform. Projected state and callbacks requesting a decision need host wiring; the standalone fixture does not supply that controller. Set up the Rust project, then see the typed controller application for working editing, validation and selection.

// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
import { KitButton, KitDrawer, KitTextField, KitTheme, KitThemes } from "@kit/kit.slint";

export component Example inherits Window {
    title: "KitDrawer example";
    preferred-width: 560px;
    preferred-height: 420px;
    max-width: 100000px;
    max-height: 100000px;
    background: root.theme.canvas;
    in-out property <KitTheme> theme: KitThemes.light;
    in-out property <string> status;
    KitDrawer { theme: root.theme; panel-width: 380px * root.theme.text-scale; width: parent.width; height: parent.height; title: "Project details"; state: { open: true, topmost: true, busy: false }; Text { text: "Field notes"; color: root.theme.text-primary; font-size: 14px * root.theme.text-scale; wrap: word-wrap; vertical-stretch: 0; }KitTextField { theme: root.theme; label: "Project name"; text: "Field notes"; }KitButton { theme: root.theme; text: "Save changes"; activated => { root.status = "Action requested"; } } if root.status != "": Text { text: root.status; color: root.theme.text-secondary; font-size: 12px * root.theme.text-scale; wrap: word-wrap; vertical-stretch: 0; } }
}

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Public API

Inherits KitDialogSurface. The declarations below come from the component source. Parent properties remain available; see the controller guide for state management.

Properties

Name Type Direction
control-size ControlSize in
title string in
close-label string in
panel-width length in

Types and variants

Names below use Slint syntax. Shared Rust domain types live in slint_kit; presentation enums come from the Rust types generated by Slint.

Type Declaration
enum ControlSize compact, medium, comfortable

Callbacks

Functions

See also