Four🍀bar

Four🍀bar is a simulator and a synthesizing tool for four-bar linkage mechanism.

• GUI program is called four-bar-ui, but the executable is called four-bar.
• Kernel library four-bar is on crates.io.

Online demo: https://kmolyuan.github.io/four-bar-rs/

Powered by https://github.com/emilk/egui.

Native icon from https://icons8.com.

Native Executable

In Linux, libxcb and libgtk-3 are required. (most desktops are already provided)

In Windows, since the builds are set in Visual Studio, the support of Visual C++ is required.

Download: https://github.com/KmolYuan/four-bar-rs/releases/latest

Native GUI is the default startup behaviour, use --help option to see more commands.

```bash

Equivalent to double-clicking the executable

four-bar

Equivalent to opening by the app or file dragging

four-bar FILEPATH1 FILEPATH2 ```

Native Build

In Linux, you need to install some library for GUI:

bash sudo apt install libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxkbcommon-dev libgtk-3-dev

Then run with cargo directly:

```bash cargo run

CLI Mode

cargo run -- --help ```

WebAssembly Build

Run those scripts from the repository:

bash cargo install trunk cd four-bar-ui trunk serve trunk build --release

The application is deployed in the dist directory (entire files).