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Rust Programming By Example

By : Guillaume Gomez, Antoni Boucher
Book Image

Rust Programming By Example

By: Guillaume Gomez, Antoni Boucher

Overview of this book

Rust is an open source, safe, concurrent, practical language created by Mozilla. It runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees safety. This book gets you started with essential software development by guiding you through the different aspects of Rust programming. With this approach, you can bridge the gap between learning and implementing immediately. Beginning with an introduction to Rust, you’ll learn the basic aspects such as its syntax, data types, functions, generics, control flows, and more. After this, you’ll jump straight into building your first project, a Tetris game. Next you’ll build a graphical music player and work with fast, reliable networking software using Tokio, the scalable and productive asynchronous IO Rust library. Over the course of this book, you’ll explore various features of Rust Programming including its SDL features, event loop, File I/O, and the famous GTK+ widget toolkit. Through these projects, you’ll see how well Rust performs in terms of concurrency—including parallelism, reliability, improved performance, generics, macros, and thread safety. We’ll also cover some asynchronous and reactive programming aspects of Rust. By the end of the book, you’ll be comfortable building various real-world applications in Rust.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
3
Events and Basic Game Mechanisms
Index

Playlist


We're now ready to create a new widget: the playlist. We'll need the following new dependencies:

[dependencies]
id3 = "^0.2.0"
m3u = "^1.0.0"

Add their corresponding extern crate statements:

extern crate id3;
extern crate m3u;

Let's create a new module for our playlist:

mod playlist;

In the src/playlist.rs file, we start by creating our model:

use gtk::ListStore;

pub struct Model {
    current_song: Option<String>,
    model: ListStore,
    relm: Relm<Playlist>,
}

The Relm type comes from the relm crate:

use relm::Relm;

It is useful to send messages to a widget. We'll learn more about that in the section about widget communication. Let's add the model initialization function:

use gdk_pixbuf::Pixbuf;
use gtk::{StaticType, Type};

#[widget]
impl Widget for Playlist {
    fn model(relm: &Relm<Self>, _: ()) -> Model {
        Model {
            current_song: None,
            model: ListStore::new(&[
                Pixbuf::static_type(),
                Type::String...