Gtk-rs for game engine integration

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Hi, I was wondering is it possible to use gtk-rs to integrate it into a game engine?

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That’s a very vague question.

Yes, it’s possible to use GTK to manage a top level game window, and then use a custom widget—something based on GtkDrawingArea, GtkGLArea, or entirely custom—to draw the game contents.

It mainly depends on things like:

  • is the “game engine” responsible only for game entities and requires you to draw things?
  • is the “game engine” responsible for drawing, and assumes your code deals with initialising the rendering pipeline?
  • is the “game engine” responsible for drawing, and manages the graphics pipeline?
  • is the “game engine” responsible for spinning a frame loop?
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So the game engine is actually using WGPU and if you take a look at egui

It does integrate to any game engines out there. So can gtk-rs integrate in a game engine like the way egui does?

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You still haven’t said what you expect with “integration”.

Do you want to draw game elements with GTK? Do you want to create a top level and then draw then game inside it?

You will need to be more specific if you want to get a meaningful answer. Egui is an immediate mode UI toolkit,

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No it doesn’t use gtk to draw stuff, so I assume you can’t use gtk with the game engine?

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Then why do you want to use GTK? What is it that you’re trying to achieve?

Feel free to assume that, at this point. You have been incredibly uncooperative, for a person asking for help.