Native Windows GUI
A light windows GUI toolkit for rust (by gabdube)
gtk
DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead! (by gtk-rs)
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| Native Windows GUI | gtk | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 5 | |
| 1,892 | 1,306 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 4.0 | |
| 5 months ago | over 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 2023-04-22.
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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.
- Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
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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
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The state of gui libraries in rust?
If you only need to support Windows desktop, then let me shill my crate: native-windows-gui. It's super lightweight and it wraps pretty much all the gui stuff provided by win32. Just note that isn't really customizable look-wise.
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Can you make GOOD LOOKING GUI in Rust?
Maybe... would you consider this showcase to be good looking? But if you're looking for more eye candy UI, nothing come close to using a html/css with a browser based framework like Tauri.
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What crates for a simple Windows app?
Assuming by "nw-gui" you mean native-windows-gui, that is by far the most user- and dev-friendly GUI library available for Rust as far as I know.
gtk
Posts with mentions or reviews of gtk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-10.
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Sharex doesn't open!!!
thread 'main' panicked at 'libgtk-3 was configured with `--enable-debug=no`. See https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk/issues/270 for details', /home/(username)/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/gtk-0.5.0/src/rt.rs:137:13
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Native Windows GUI and gtk you can also consider the following projects:
Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion
QML-rust - QML (Qt Quick) bindings for Rust language
Azul - Desktop GUI Framework
relm - Idiomatic, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm, written in Rust
druid - A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
imgui-rs - Rust bindings for Dear ImGui
conrod - An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust.
orbtk - The Rust UI-Toolkit.