gtk-rs-core VS Gtk4-tutorial

Compare gtk-rs-core vs Gtk4-tutorial and see what are their differences.

Gtk4-tutorial

GTK 4 tutorial for beginners (by ToshioCP)
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9.8 6.0
4 days ago about 2 months ago
Rust C
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gtk-rs-core

Posts with mentions or reviews of gtk-rs-core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-08.
  • Nix Software Center: gtk4/libadwaita app store for NixOS
    11 projects | /r/NixOS | 8 Sep 2022
    nix-software-center> [1/6] Generating src/resources_gresource with a custom command nix-software-center> xml-stripblanks preprocessing requested, but XMLLINT is not set, and xmllint is not in PATH nix-software-center> [4/6] Generating data/dev.vlinkz.NixSoftwareCenter.metainfo.xml with a custom command nix-software-center> FAILED: src/nix-software-center nix-software-center> /nix/store/p643r4aczmzb0dhyrx3dj592f0s5v7xj-coreutils-9.0/bin/env CARGO_HOME=/build/r4npznxg986vxdl3gh7jhmqvv8jbvf02-source/build/cargo-home /nix/store/2gwhsd2jcz90zni0pwlhhfbmfbflixws-cargo-1.60.0/bin/cargo build --manifest-path /build/r4npznxg986vxdl3gh7jhmqvv8jbvf02-source/Cargo.toml --target-dir /build/r4npznxg986vxdl3gh7jhmqvv8jbvf02-source/build/src --release && cp src/release/nix-software-center src/nix-software-center nix-software-center> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. error: builder for '/nix/store/m9kf43zsr5hkq2igfdnag0phq154igks-nix-software-center-0.0.1.drv' failed with exit code 1; last 10 log lines: > building > build flags: -j8 -l8 > [0/6] Generating src/cargo-build with a custom command > error: package cairo-sys-rs v0.16.0 (https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core#9fe7e5ce) cannot be built because it requires rustc 1.63 or newer, while the currently active rustc version is 1.60.0 > [1/6] Generating src/resources_gresource with a custom command > xml-stripblanks preprocessing requested, but XMLLINT is not set, and xmllint is not in PATH > [4/6] Generating data/dev.vlinkz.NixSoftwareCenter.metainfo.xml with a custom command > FAILED: src/nix-software-center > /nix/store/p643r4aczmzb0dhyrx3dj592f0s5v7xj-coreutils-9.0/bin/env CARGO_HOME=/build/r4npznxg986vxdl3gh7jhmqvv8jbvf02-source/build/cargo-home /nix/store/2gwhsd2jcz90zni0pwlhhfbmfbflixws-cargo-1.60.0/bin/cargo build --manifest-path /build/r4npznxg986vxdl3gh7jhmqvv8jbvf02-source/Cargo.toml --target-dir /build/r4npznxg986vxdl3gh7jhmqvv8jbvf02-source/build/src --release && cp src/release/nix-software-center src/nix-software-center > ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/m9kf43zsr5hkq2igfdnag0phq154igks-nix-software-center-0.0.1.drv'. error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/clykb6wwpv08l2vxnvnx8br7fzpx2y63-system-path.drv' failed to build error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/321q6c143bf5w7m8njzvqkhjillbssk5-nixos-system-nflx-erahhal-t490s-22.05.20220902.67e4507.drv' failed to build
  • Gtk4 Tutorial
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2021
    "Automatically figuring out which parent objects the class you're subclassing derives from"

    AFAIK this is a language limitation, there is no way in a Rust macro to take a type and get all the traits that are implemented for that type.

    "Helpers for properties and signals"

    There is an open issue for this: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/issues/27

    "A flat list of methods, instead of the public/imp split"

    You can already do this in your code and use "pub fn" and "fn" like normal.

    "I feel like I had a difficult time figuring out how to share state between widgets. You end up with lots of OnceCell, Rc, and RefCell, and it quickly becomes confusing,"

    I think you are supposed to use bind_property and the gtk::Expression objects to do data binding, though that part is not so convenient to use from C or Rust either.

  • How to (properly) use subclassing in gtk4-rs?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 3 Aug 2021
    Ideally this should be automated with a nice derive macro, see https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/issues/27 . How that could look exactly is still up to discussion and not so easy while keeping it flexible. That derive macro would then likely also work with the id: usize parameter to the property setter/getter instead of the string name.

Gtk4-tutorial

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  • Not-gtk GUI Libs/frameworks for plain C
    6 projects | /r/C_Programming | 22 Jan 2022
    have you tried this? https://github.com/ToshioCP/Gtk4-tutorial also https://github.com/frang75/nappgui is very interesting and promising.
  • Gtk4 Tutorial
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2021
  • Do you know any good recourses for learning GTK (and glib, gobject, gio)?
    2 projects | /r/AskProgramming | 7 Jun 2021
    But after trying to follow along with the official documentation for glib I realized it's all a bit to complicated for me, and I'm really struggling to follow along with it (f*ck you ADHD). I then found a different tutorial that seems to be a bit more handholding and easier to follow along with, but my issue with that is that it doesn't cover glib and gobject, instead it just requires me to copy the code without understanding whenever any gobject related topics appear. I then found a book that fits my needs perfectly, but that is incomplete and as the book itself states it is far from finished, and from what I understand the creator gave up on it in 2019.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gtk-rs-core and Gtk4-tutorial you can also consider the following projects:

glib-gtk-book - The GLib/GTK Development Platform – A Getting Started Guide

Relm4 - Build truly native applications with ease!

nappgui - Cross-Platform C SDK (precompiled)

Relm4 - An idiomatic GUI library inspired by Elm and based on gtk4-rs [Moved to: https://github.com/Relm4/Relm4]

gtk-rs - Rust bindings for GTK 3

libui-ng - libui-ng: a portable GUI library for C. "libui for the next generation"

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

poppler-rs - Render PDFs in Rust using libpoppler

Yue - A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps

raygui - A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library