It might be lack of sleep, but I can’t figure this out.

I have a Label, and I want its text to be red when it represents an error, and I want it be green when it represent “good to go”.

I found search result for C and maybe a solution for Python, but nothing for Rust.

I tried manually setting the css-classes property and running queue_draw(); it didn’t work.

I can have a gtk::Box or a Frame that I place where the Label should go, then declare two Labels, and use set_child() to switch between them, but that seems like an ugly solution.

Do you have a solution?

  • BB_C@programming.dev
    11·
    13 hours ago

    Use libcosmic 😑

    No, but seriously… skip to the end.

    Iced and Egui both can’t handle Arabic, which is a deal breaker.

    Iced can handle Arabic shaping-wise when cosmic-text is used, but it can’t handle the direction (yet). If you only need it for the interface, a shit workaround would be to prefix all text with an RLM (RIGHT-TO-LEFT Mark). This would left-align all text of course.

    Iced takes forever to compile and iterate, maybe that’ll be fixed with dynamic linking.

    Fast iteration is already fixed by using cranelift in your release-dev profile (or whatever you want to call it), and mold as a linker. The binary will be slower, but iteration will be much much faster.

    Okay, something helpful instead: Did you try asking in the rust:gnome.org matrix room mentioned in the project page?

    • Doods@infosec.pubOP
      1·
      3 hours ago

      If you only need it for the interface, a shit workaround would be to prefix all text with an RLM (RIGHT-TO-LEFT Mark).

      Unfortunately no, I expect users to enter Arabic text as well.

      Fast iteration is already fixed by using cranelift in your release-dev profile (or whatever you want to call it), and mold as a linker.

      Maybe, I didn’t try that before, but I don’t expect Cranelift to match the speeds gtk-rs is currently giving me; Cranelift also doesn’t solve the problem of rust-analyzer acting crazy.

      Okay, something helpful instead: Did you try asking in the rust:gnome.org matrix room mentioned in the project page?

      No, I prefer public posts to prevent effort duplication, so much so that my mind started filtering out such things on project pages, but thanks for reminding me.