GTK Blueprint for Rust

This crate lets you use the Blueprint syntax for the UI in GTK applications built with Rust.

For this to work the Blueprint Compiler directory must be found in the $PATH environtment variable or it can be included in the project root in blueprint-compiler/blueprint-compiler.py. If the Blueprint Compiler is not found your project will not compile.

Use the include_blp!() macro to compile the Blueprint to the format that GtkBuilder can read (UI XML). The macro takes a file path relative to the project root. Similarly to how the include_str!() macro works, the compiled UI XML is included in the Rust source file as a &'static str.

If the Blueprint compiler fails to compile the file to UI XML for whatever reason (file not found, bad syntax, etc.) your program will also fail to compile.

Example

rust let builder = gtk::Builder::new(); builder.add_from_string(include_blp!("./src/window.blp")).expect("error parsing UI XML");