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Getting started with 'iced' GUI library for Rust

Getting started with 'iced' GUI library for Rust

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Eric Zimmerman
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Being new to Rust, I'm starting with various simple examples to understand some of the dynamics.

Upon initial searches, I found the following references:

Getting Started

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At the time of this blog, the iced help documentation is lacking. There are numerous examples, but failed to immediately build and the missing dependency wasn't obvious.
# create the project
cargo new hellorusticed
cd hellorusticed
code .

# add dependencies
cargo add iced
cargo add iced_lazy
cargo add iced_native

Example 1 - Slider

Here is one example that worked right out of the box.

  1. Copy main.rs contents from the following link into the new project (https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/blob/0.9/examples/slider/src/main.rs)

  2. Build via cargo build.

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I was a little confused why two windows were coming up at first. I'm assuming that the Sandbox implementation makes this happen, but not sure. I modified the application to use a println! when an update event occurred on an event.

The following screenshots were taken from the build output with a slightly hacked update function for test purposes.

Example 2 - Download Progress

Here is the second, slightly more comprehensive application that downloads a speed test file.

https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/tree/0.9/examples/download_progress

I re-used the last example mostly... actions included the following, although unsure if they were needed.

  1. purge target directory

  2. deleted Cargo.lock.

  3. modified Cargo.toml directly to remove unneeded dependencies.

# dependencies
cargo add iced --features tokio
cargo add iced_native
cargo add iced_futures
cargo add reqwest --no-default-features --features rustls-tls

# build
cargo build

Conclusion

It feels like there is some potential here, but not ready for prime time. I struggled to get some of the examples to work, including the seemingly simple modal dialog example. I'll keep my eyes on this one.

source: https://github.com/ericjameszimmerman/rustbasics

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