Native Windows GUI: Features

Almost all of the features of native-windows-gui are behimd feature flags, but by default it includes everything.

In order to cut the compile time, specify default-features=false in Cargo.toml. Ex:

native-windows-gui = {

              version="1",

              default-features=false,

              features = [

                "extern-canvas", "frame", "raw-win-handle",

                "listbox", "flexbox", "cursor",

                "animation-timer"

              ]

        }

Feature list

Here is a list of all the features in NWG

animation-timer: A custom timer to handle animations and timeout
clipboard: Enable the clipboard features
color-dialog: Enable the color dialog
combobox: The combobox control
cursor: The GlobalCursor utility to handle the windows mouse cursor
datetime-picker: The datetime picker control
dynamic_layout: Enable dynamic layout
embed-resource: Enable the EmbedResource resource
extern-canvas: The extern canvas control. It can be used as a target to render from external API (like opengl or Vulkan)
file-dialog: The file dialog resource
flexbox: The flexbox layout
font-dialog: The font dialog resource
frame: The frame control. A optionally bordered rect that can contain children.
high-dpi: Enable high-dpi functions
image-decoder: Add lots of supported image format to Bitmap and the ImageDecoder resource
image-list: Adds icons to controls that implement them (listview, tabs, etc)
list-view: The list view control
listbox: The list box control
menu: Menu bar & menu item for top level window. Also includes popup menus
message-window: An invisible window that processes messages in the background
no-styling: Disable automatic style (ex: if you specify stylling in the manifest)
notice: An obejct to wake up a gui thread from another thread
number-select: A custom control to select numbers
progress-bar: The progress bar control
raw-win-handle: Implement the raw-window-handle for extern canvas and window
rich-textbox: A rich text box control
scroll-bar: A scrollbar control
status-bar: A satus bar control
tabs: The tabs container control
textbox: A simple text box
timer: DEPRECATED. Use animation-timer instead.
tooltip: The Tooltip control. It manages tooltip for 1 or more gui controls
trackbar: The trackbar control
tray-notification: Windows tray notification
tree-view: The treeview control
tree-view-iterator: An iterator for the tree view control
winnls: Internationalization windows service ex: The month name locale example