Native Windows GUI
A light windows GUI toolkit for rust (by gabdube)
Relm4
An idiomatic GUI library inspired by Elm and based on gtk4-rs [Moved to: https://github.com/Relm4/Relm4] (by AaronErhardt)

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Native Windows GUI | Relm4 | |
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13 | 9 | |
1,995 | 383 | |
0.4% | - | |
0.0 | 9.5 | |
9 months ago | almost 3 years ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Native Windows GUI
Posts with mentions or reviews of Native Windows GUI.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-19.
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FLTK 1.4 Released
[2] https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui
- I have 0 coding experience or knowledge. I used ChatGPT to create code that would automate 80% of my work and I don't know how to deal with this newfound power
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Which GUI toolkit for Rust today.. few questions...
On windows, I'll probably use https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui or https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs both of them seem pretty solid.
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Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui isn't in the list but is quite a polished option for building Windows specific GUIs.
- Minimum effort Windows GUI choice?
- Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
- A light windows GUI toolkit for rust
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Good Rust System Tray Library?
My crate native-windows-gui supports tray application, if you only care about Windows. Example: https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui/blob/master/native-windows-gui/examples/system_tray_d.rs
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What's everyone working on this week (15/2021)?
Created a small resident windows program that shows a different icon depending on battery level test how easy using windows-rs and native-windows-gui is. Picked this as an easy learning project after seeing Battery Buddy for macOS.
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WinSafe: Win32 GUI and related APIs in safe, idiomatic Rust - after 1 year and 5 months of development, first experimental version is finally here
native-windows-ui => https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui
Relm4
Posts with mentions or reviews of Relm4.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-19.
- #31 Bit Windy · This Week in GNOME
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Does Rust have a React-like GUI framework? If not, why not?
Relm4 is the newer version for GTK4 https://github.com/AaronErhardt/relm4
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Pop collaboration with Relm4 / Writing GTK applications for Pop
[dependencies.relm4] git = "https://github.com/AaronErhardt/relm4" branch = "new-approach" [dependencies.relm4-macros] git = "https://github.com/AaronErhardt/relm4" branch = "new-approach"
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GTK language bindings, GObject over native classes?
Probably, many gtk-rs devs have used C before and also GObjects can give you more control in some cases. But for the most part you will be fine using idiomatic Rust with something like Relm4.
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Got a few questions for those who are daily drivin the PinePhone
As for writing apps, I've been enjoying Rust + Relm4 (https://github.com/AaronErhardt/relm4), but it might be easier to start off with Python or Vala and GTK or similar. A lot of gnome apps are Python. This looks like a good way to get started: https://www.gtk.org/docs/language-bindings/python/
- Gtk4 Tutorial
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Whats your favourite open source Rust project that needs more recognition?
relm4 - like relm, but for GTK4
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Recommended Rust GUI Libraries
Creator of [Relm4](https://github.com/AaronErhardt/relm4 here. Of course I might be a bit biased but I honestly think Relm4 has currently the best cross-platform and full-featured GUI experience for Rust programmers :)
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What's everyone working on this week (29/2021)?
I'm working on relm4, an new version of relm using gtk4-rs
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Native Windows GUI and Relm4 you can also consider the following projects:
imgui-rs - Rust bindings for Dear ImGui
gtk - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!
Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion
relm - Idiomatic, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm, written in Rust
conrod - An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust.
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
Azul - Desktop GUI Framework
Gtk4-tutorial - GTK 4 tutorial for beginners
QML-rust - QML (Qt Quick) bindings for Rust language
rustbox - Rust implementation of the termbox library
tealr - A wrapper around mlua to generate documentation, definition files and other helpers

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