(This thread is updated and recovered from "solved" state because iced I thought as my target GUI lib seems not support file chooser.) I intent to write a Minecraft launcher that will be written in Rust, but I felt confused about selecting a suitable GUI lib. Here are the brief considerations: N…

For a small application that doesn't need any fancy styling, I'd reach for the iced crate . It's a cross-platform immediate mode GUI framework that works pretty well on all the platforms I've used.

I’d like to self-nominate Tk if you are already familiar with Tcl/Tk. It: Use native APIs (it’s a high-level binding library) No immediate mode GUI frameworks( it’s retained mode) Cross-platform (works on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD) Rust-similar coding style ( I’m not sure, but I’ve tried hard …

you can check slint: it is traditional retained mode GUI, it has custom DSL to describe the UI. and it has a online editor too. [image] GitHub - slint-ui/slint: Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native... Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for a…

If you need to write something right now and want to target the desktop, I would choose fltk-rs. I can recommend fltk-rs because it just works, has cpu and gpu drawn widgets (your choice) and is very low on resources. @MoAlyousef has been doing great work here. The community is small, but it builds…

[image] nahsheef: I miss the good old days where GUIs were consistent in behavior So do I. Sun took a buzzsaw to that trying to corner the market, then everyone else started doing it and pretty soon Web UIs started looking good.

[image] tbfleming: then everyone else started doing it and pretty soon Web UIs started looking good. Are you referring to Sun investing in fixing paper cuts of GTK2/GNOME2, OpenOffice, Accessibility, and doing user studies? Today, running a pure Wayland sway desktop, I'm forced to apply CSS …

I tried iced and slint before I moved to fltk. I'm glad I did because the next iced release removed the OpenGL backend in favor of wgpu alone, and the iced demo I built was higher on CPU than the rewrite with fltk. OpenGL is important because wgpu requires newer GPUs for your UI to render than iced'…

I browsed it on crates.io but found it has just few downloads, and it does not have abundant docs online, so this lib might not be suitable for me. But thanks for your advice!

I wote a GUI framwork that incorporates a builtin physics engine and flexbox stlye layout system. Its written in C but I am in the process of porting it to rust. You can see how I did it here, maybe you can get some ideas to implement your own? I built it mainly for rapid HMI stuff, guages, widgets…

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simonbuchan August 7, 2023, 1:33pm 5

The probably not literally, but certainly feels like it, exhaustive list: https://areweguiyet.com/

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