The core of what GTK Estate does is associate user-defined state objects with GTK and libadwaita container widgets and windows. It also contains objects and functions such as TimeOut that might make working with GTK and libadwaita a bit easier.

It basically helps you to build dynamic GUIs based on GTK in Rust.

The StateContainers struct contains widget and window state association hashmaps and is a singleton that needs to be initialised before being used:

mod application_state;

use gtk_estate::{adw::{prelude::*, Application}, StateContainers};

use crate::application_state::ApplicationState;

fn main()
{

    let app = Application::builder().application_id("org.example_gui").build();

    //Initialise State the containers.

    StateContainers::init();

    //The ApplicationState (which you define) can now add itself to the StateContainers instance from within its own constructor

    ApplicationState::new(&app);

    //Run the application

    _ = app.run();

}

In the above example an adw Application is built then StateContainers is initialised, then ApplicationState is instantiated and passed a reference to the Application (a clone of which will become part of its state). An ApplicationState object must implement ApplicationStateContainer, likewise widget state container objects (including windows) must implement WidgetStateContainer (see examples).

The reason why StateContainers is a singleton is because it's easier to consolidate all GTK and libadwaita related state into one set of maps than handle this state discretely.

Also StateContainers is a single-threaded singleton which should only contain state which deals with UI and inter-thread-communication related tasks probably using a crate like act_rs for the latter.

Building Requirements

Requires the GTK4 and libadwaita library binaries on your system (See The GTK Book for GTK installation instructions).

Search your software repositories to find the libadwaita libraries.

Features

GTK4

libadwaita

Additionally

GTK Estate Re-exposes:

• GTK4 (gtk)
• libadwaita (adw (if selected))
• Corlib (corlib)

Todo

• Re-wite the Timeout objects.
• Add more GTK/adw helper functions and helper objects.

Examples

• Simple Unix Time Outputer

• Escape It

• Req It

Coding Style

This project uses a coding style the emphasises the use of white space over keeping the line and column counts as low as possible.

So this:

fn foo()
{

    bar();

}

Not this:

fn foo()
{
    bar();
}

License

Licensed under either of:

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 (see also: https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/apache-license-2-0-apache-2-0))
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT (see also: https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license))

at your discretion

Contributing

Please clone the repository and create an issue explaining what feature or features you'd like to add or bug or bugs you'd like to fix and perhaps how you intend to implement these additions or fixes. Try to include details though it doesn't need to be exhaustive and we'll take it from there (dependant on availability).

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.