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29 Mar 2024
	xionbox joined the room.	02:06:05
xionbox	Hi there. I'm brand new to GUI development (I'm mostly a high fidelity simulation software engineer and quite proficient in Rust). Would Relm be able to be a good visualization tool for a 3D globe? I'm looking to build something to visualize spacecraft trajectories	02:07:34
chfkch	In reply to @xionbox:matrix.org Hi there. I'm brand new to GUI development (I'm mostly a high fidelity simulation software engineer and quite proficient in Rust). Would Relm be able to be a good visualization tool for a 3D globe? I'm looking to build something to visualize spacecraft trajectories I think you might want to look at something like bevy engine for that.	07:13:14
1 Apr 2024
chfkch	Do `SimpleAsyncComponents` not have a `self` available in the `view!` macro? I struggle to move data out of this piece of code here https://codeberg.org/Chfkch/bitritter/src/commit/5e239e7e10a8c3d9f0daa9a75db4622d97d1c2c4/src/main.rs#L691 Also i think i got a workaround for things that can implement `Copy` by moving it into the `connect_clicked`, but i have Strings there mostly. What is the preferred approach here? Lifetime &str?	14:08:13
chfkch	Seems there is a markdown problem when posting on my phone, sorry.	14:18:52
Aaron Erhardt	Components generally don't have `self` available in `view!`, but you have to use the name of your model. That can't be changed either because in `init()` both the model and the widgets are initialized, so you don't have `self` there yet.	17:46:23
chfkch	In reply to @aaron:matrix.aaron-erhardt.de Components generally don't have `self` available in `view!`, but you have to use the name of your model. That can't be changed either because in `init()` both the model and the widgets are initialized, so you don't have `self` there yet. Ah, makes sense. I had only worked with factories until somedays and those have it 😁	18:17:57
chfkch	I think my problem about moving/cloning the string is more of a rust issue than relm.	18:19:27
5 Apr 2024
chfkch	@Aaron Erhardt I have seen that libadwaita has introduced adw::Dialog recently. Is that planned to be adapted in relm soon? Or should i use gtk::Dialog for now?	16:19:16
chfkch	Btw is there an chance to provide help to the project by donations or work?	16:31:09
	Andy joined the room.	16:52:23
Andy	hello. this is day 1 of relm, gtk-rs and gtk. I'm going to work on a cross-platform desktop app. should I use libadwaita at all? should I care one way or another?	17:19:44
Andy	In reply to @xionbox:matrix.org Hi there. I'm brand new to GUI development (I'm mostly a high fidelity simulation software engineer and quite proficient in Rust). Would Relm be able to be a good visualization tool for a 3D globe? I'm looking to build something to visualize spacecraft trajectories I think these guys https://www.fslabs.ca/ use bevy + egui, for what it's worth	17:22:07
Aaron Erhardt	In reply to @airstrike:private.coffee hello. this is day 1 of relm, gtk-rs and gtk. I'm going to work on a cross-platform desktop app. should I use libadwaita at all? should I care one way or another? GTK works on all major Desktop OS platforms, but shipping binaries for Windows is not simple. I think Libadwaita supports the same platforms, but might make the build process even more complicated on non-Linux platforms.	22:11:37
Aaron Erhardt	In reply to @chfkch:matrix.org @Aaron Erhardt I have seen that libadwaita has introduced adw::Dialog recently. Is that planned to be adapted in relm soon? Or should i use gtk::Dialog for now? Relm4 doesn't force usage of Libadwaita, so `gtk::Dialog` will always be supported. If you want, you can help by improving support for `adw::Dialog`.	22:14:30
Andy	In reply to @aaron:matrix.aaron-erhardt.de GTK works on all major Desktop OS platforms, but shipping binaries for Windows is not simple. I think Libadwaita supports the same platforms, but might make the build process even more complicated on non-Linux platforms. thanks. I'm struggling to find the right "stack" for building a cross-platform Rust GUI application that is as fast as humanly possible. I was going down the Tauri route first, but I don't find it very ergonomic overall and a bit of a Frankenstein monster... it didn't feel as snappy as I wanted it to either. think I might try iced next, then	22:20:52
Aaron Erhardt	Pure Rust GUI frameworks are great for speed indeed. GTK still is much more complete though, so I recommend checking whether Iced or similar libraries cover your use-case. That can safe you a lot of time (in my own experience).	22:26:00
6 Apr 2024
chfkch	In reply to @aaron:matrix.aaron-erhardt.de Relm4 doesn't force usage of Libadwaita, so `gtk::Dialog` will always be supported. If you want, you can help by improving support for `adw::Dialog`. Usually stuff is implemented in relm when it is in gtk-rs right? so i don't have to read C code, because i am a noob at that. Have to check if that is true for adwaita aswell. Guess i will have a closer look at relm sources then haha.	19:38:11
7 Apr 2024
Aaron Erhardt	Yes, everything in Relm4 uses gtk-rs and except for the component and factory runtimes the code is usually quite simple.	06:00:40
chfkch	Ok so do i understand correctly that relm does not provide things like gtk::Label etc. itself but only reexports them? So in case of adw::Dialog i have to first get it upstream here? https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Rust/libadwaita-rs	07:01:38
Aaron Erhardt	Yes, the entire gtk4 crate is re-exported and even the view macro mostly uses "vanilla" gtk-rs methods with a tiny bit of extension traits. The C bindings for GTK and Libadwaita on the other hand are mostly auto-generated with some manual code on top, so you should not have to add `adw::Dialog` yourself. I think the type already exists in libadwaita-rs on git. The only change needed for Relm4 is to pull the dependencies from git then to unlock the new features.	17:41:52
8 Apr 2024
chfkch	Ok i have no idea how that works. Meanwhile i have implemented a gtk::Dialog in my app, but i found it irritating that the examples have a button controller which is a dialog controller basically. i have just implemented the dialog controller in my app model and it looks easier. Am i missing something here? I can push the code later this day for reference.	09:54:57
chfkch	Otherwise it is working as expected (even a warning about the transient stuff is gone), when omitting the extra button component.	09:55:47
Aaron Erhardt	Sure. Honestly, I don't quite understand what you need exactly, so maybe the code would help me understand your use-case.	11:03:10
	QuARC joined the room.	22:15:57
QuARC	(my homeserver may be extremely slow, apologies in advance) so I want to use TypedColumnView and I took a look at examples/typed_column_view.rs in the repo I see that Label1Column, Label2Column and ButtonColumn are all separate struct but let's say I want to reuse Label1Column for multiple columns, is that possible Like can I have another Label1Column that shows a different value without writing a whole new struct\|	22:24:13
QuARC	I wanna do something like this `Thing \| Group 1 \| Group 2 \| Group 3 A \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 B \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 C \| 7 \| 8 \| 9` where I'll have an unknown number of groups and... some data structure to make it work-	22:27:06
QuARC	* I wanna do something like this `Thing \| Group 1 \| Group 2 \| Group 3 A \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 B \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 C \| 7 \| 8 \| 9` where I'll have an unknown number of groups and... some data structure to make it work	22:27:10
QuARC	* I wanna do something like this `Thing \| Group 1 \| Group 2 \| Group 3 A \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 B \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 C \| 7 \| 8 \| 9` where I'll have an unknown number of things and groups and... some data structure to make it work	22:27:36
QuARC	I guess I could do it manually with factories or something, but that seems annoying	22:28:18

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