Native Windows GUI
A light windows GUI toolkit for rust (by gabdube)
conrod
An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust. (by PistonDevelopers)
| Native Windows GUI | conrod | |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 5 | |
| 1,990 | 3,354 | |
| 0.8% | 0.2% | |
| 0.0 | 1.8 | |
| 9 months ago | about 3 years ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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
conrod
Posts with mentions or reviews of conrod.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-20.
- Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (42/2021)!
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qoin: gRPC API for MediaPipe
This is a desktop application that a pointer moves in the display following hand moving. It is written in Rust using conrod as the GUI framework. There is no official gRPC implementation, but we can use such as tonic.
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Rust GUI: Introduction, a.k.a. the state of Rust GUI libraries (As of January 2021)
Conrod
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Can you combine piston and conrod libraries?
If anyone is reading this in the future, there is an example at https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/conrod/tree/master/backends/conrod_piston.
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Dyon – A rusty dynamically typed scripting language
Also check out conrod[0] which is from the same group. One of the really awesome GUI projects in rust that sticks out in my mind.
[0]: https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/conrod
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Native Windows GUI and conrod you can also consider the following projects:
imgui-rs - Rust bindings for Dear ImGui
Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion
Azul - Desktop GUI Framework
Relm4 - An idiomatic GUI library inspired by Elm and based on gtk4-rs [Moved to: https://github.com/Relm4/Relm4]
gtk - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!
libui-rs - Rust bindings to the minimalist, native, cross-platform UI toolkit `libui`
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
rustbox - Rust implementation of the termbox library
Cursive - A Text User Interface library for the Rust programming language