Example of how to use with Iced

[andrewdavidmackenzie]

I'm looking for a tray-icon crate to use with Iced, to pop-up a larger UI when the icon is pressed, or a menu item is selected.

Thanks for the egui.rs example. When I look at it (and run) I don't see any linkage between displaying the icon and the app, such as popping up the app on icon clicking, or de-iconizing the app on icon click etc. I guess it's mostly about receiving tray events in update() and then leaving to the author to decide what to do in the app regarding that?

Would it be possible to produce some example of how to use with Iced?

If you're in favor, with some pointers, I could try and create it...

[FabianLars]

I don't think we would mind an example in the repo, iced is pretty popular after all. I don't think we have team members with extensive iced knowledge so we would very much appreciate help :)

[nate-trojian]

I had some issues trying to use tray_icon with iced on Mac, specifically because iced runs your code on a separate thread rather than the main thread. I was able to get a very basic implementation working but I had to edit iced directly. There is quite a bit more work to be done to get it to work properly, but it is possible at the very least.

[andrewdavidmackenzie]

Thanks @nate-trojian I raised the issue recently in Iced discord.
Someone chipped in saying it was planned for the next release (0.14.0), but when I looked at the milestone for that release I couldn't see it.
So, unclear if planned or not.
WDYT about contributing to chat or Iced issue on the subject, with your experience and example - to see if it's something that could be got across the line in Iced?
Would be a nice win!

[andrewdavidmackenzie]

@nate-trojian presumably that change is needed there to be at the right moment in iced startup/initialization?

Did your app just have the usual calls to iced on start-up to have it work with that tray icon?

I was wondering if using Application::run_with() instead of run() and doing it in there would work, but doesn't for me so far.

[nate-trojian]

Sat down tonight and split off the tray icon work from my own fork.

Made a draft PR in the iced repo: iced-rs/iced#3021

[andrewdavidmackenzie]

Great work! It might be hard to get this merged to Iced, but fingers crossed!

[andrewdavidmackenzie]

Until that PR is merged, I'm not sure there is a nice way to show an example of tray_icon with iced?
It's great that you included an example there.
Hence, if you wanted to close this issue I would understand.

[ssrlive]

My demo in iced https://github.com/ssrlive/iced-demo