TKCode.Arc 0.3.2-preview.1

TKCode.Arc

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Arc-style components for Avalonia. TKCode.Arc ports the free components of Arc — 112 components in 22 groups — with Arc's visual language and spring motion.

• Targets net10.0 and net11.0; desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux).
• Depends on Avalonia 12.1.4 (exact version), on TKCode.Arc.Foundation (its own MIT theme, token and language runtime) and on StreamMark for Markdown and code highlighting. Every package in the chain is MIT licensed; there is no AtomUI dependency since 0.3.2.
• Design documents: design/overview.md.
• Live demo: https://docs.tkcode.si/ (the gallery of every component, in the browser).

Packages

Install

The latest preview is 0.3.2-preview.1 on NuGet:

dotnet add package TKCode.Arc --version 0.3.2-preview.1
dotnet add package TKCode.Arc.Fonts --version 0.3.2-preview.1           # optional: Geist and Geist Mono
dotnet add package TKCode.Arc.Icons.Lucide --version 0.3.2-preview.1    # optional: the full Lucide set

TKCode.Arc brings in TKCode.Arc.Core (and, from 0.3.2, TKCode.Arc.Foundation). TKCode.Arc.Blocks, TKCode.Arc.AdvancedCharts and TKCode.Arc.Special (the animated AI explainers of the Special components section) are separate packages on NuGet; TKCode.Arc.Workflow (the workflow canvas, UseArcWorkflow()) ships with them too. TKCode.Arc.Themes.Pixel (a pixel-art theme, UseArcPixelTheme()) and TKCode.Arc.Mobile (the first touch-first controls, UseArcMobile(), not yet verified on devices) are new in 0.3.1-preview.1; TKCode.Arc.Themes.Corners (global corner style, UseArcCorners()) is new in 0.3.1-preview.2. TKCode.Arc.Terminal (TerminalView over libghostty-vt, native libraries bundled) is new in 0.3.1-preview.4. TKCode.Arc.Audio (the IAudioPlayer abstraction behind the media blocks, silent by default) with its backends TKCode.Arc.Audio.Native (desktop, miniaudio, ArcAudioNative.Use()) and TKCode.Arc.Audio.Browser (WebAssembly, ArcAudioBrowser.UseAsync()) is new in 0.3.2-preview.1. Versions carry a -preview suffix, so the API may still change between releases.

Getting started

The code below is the API on main (0.4, not yet on NuGet). Apps on 0.3.2-preview.1 register Arc inside UseAtomUI(...); CHANGELOG.md has the migration notes.

AppBuilder.Configure<App>()
    .UsePlatformDetect()
    .WithInterFont()
    .WithArcFonts()          // optional: Geist display type and Geist Mono code type
    .UseArc(arc => arc
        .UseArcControls()
        .WithTheme(t => t.Appearance(ArcAppearance.System)));

// Later, for example from a settings page:
ArcTheme.Apply(t => t.Appearance(ArcAppearance.Dark).Accent(ArcAccentPreset.Violet));

<Window xmlns:arc="https://github.com/AIDotNet/TKCode.Arc">
  <StackPanel Spacing="12">
    <arc:Button Content="Save changes" />
    <arc:Button Content="Cancel" Variant="Secondary" />
    <arc:Switch Content="Email notifications" IsChecked="True" />
    <arc:CopyButton Value="npx arc add copy-button" />
    <arc:Button Content="Share" arc:Tooltip.Tip="Copy link" />
    <arc:Calendar ShowToday="True" />
  </StackPanel>
</Window>

Icons: Arc's built-in glyphs ({x:Static arc:ArcIcons.Check}) cover every icon the components use; any other Lucide icon comes from the icons package:

<Window xmlns:lucide="https://github.com/AIDotNet/TKCode.Arc/lucide">
  <lucide:LucideIcon Kind="Sparkles" Size="20" />
</Window>

Accent, appearance and motion level:

var config = new ThemeConfigBuilder()
    .WithAlgorithms(ThemeAlgorithm.Default, ThemeAlgorithm.Dark)
    .WithArc(arc => arc.Accent(ArcAccentPreset.Violet))
    .Build();
await Application.Current!.GetThemeManager()!.ApplyThemeAsync(
    new ThemeRequest(IThemeManager.DEFAULT_THEME_ID, config, ThemeTransitionReason.UserRequest));

ArcMotion.SetLevel(window, ArcMotionLevel.Reduced);   // Full, Reduced or Off

Markdown and code: CodeBlock highlights out of the box (TextMate grammars painted in Arc's palette), and Markdown renders a document or a streamed reply with the same styling:

var reply = new Markdown();
reply.Append("Here is the **fix**:\n\n```csharp\n");
reply.Append("var total = items.Sum(i => i.Price);\n```\n");
reply.Complete();

Notes for applications:

• Do not enable InvariantGlobalization (number and date formatting needs culture data).
• NativeAOT with the .NET 11 SDK: set <UseOptimizedPublish>false</UseOptimizedPublish>, otherwise the compiled XAML is left out of the published app.
• Anchored popups (menus, selects, tooltips, popovers) are drawn in the window's overlay layer, so they sit exactly sideOffset away from their trigger and never cover it.
• Button, Calendar, Carousel, ContextMenu, DatePicker, Slider, SplitButton, TabItem, TimePicker, TreeView and TreeViewItem share names with Avalonia.Controls; alias one namespace when a file imports both.

Building

Requires the .NET 11 SDK (see global.json) and the .NET 10 runtime (the tests and the gallery run on net10.0).

dotnet build TKCode.Arc.slnx
dotnet test tests/TKCode.Arc.Core.Tests
dotnet test tests/TKCode.Arc.Tests
dotnet run --project gallery/TKCode.Arc.Gallery.Desktop -f net10.0

Sponsors

TKCode.Arc is mainly sponsored by nextco.work, which provides affordable, easy-to-use access to Claude, OpenAI and DeepSeek models. Thank you for supporting the project.

License

MIT. Arc depends only on Avalonia (MIT) and MIT packages of its own, so closed-source applications can ship it in a single file or a NativeAOT build. See THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md for Arc (MIT), Lucide (ISC), fonts (OFL), StreamMark, TextMateSharp, Oniguruma and Markdig.