Crate wry

Wry is a Cross-platform WebView rendering library.

To build a Window with WebView embedded, we could use application module to create EventLoop and the window. It’s a module that re-exports APIs from tao. Then use webview module to create the WebView from the Window. Here’s a minimum example showing how to create a hello world window and load the url to Tauri website.

fn main() -> wry::Result<()> {
  use wry::{
    application::{
      event::{Event, StartCause, WindowEvent},
      event_loop::{ControlFlow, EventLoop},
      window::WindowBuilder,
    },
    webview::WebViewBuilder,
  };

  let event_loop = EventLoop::new();
  let window = WindowBuilder::new()
    .with_title("Hello World")
    .build(&event_loop)?;
  let _webview = WebViewBuilder::new(window)?
    .with_url("https://tauri.studio")?
    .build()?;

  event_loop.run(move |event, _, control_flow| {
    *control_flow = ControlFlow::Wait;

    match event {
      Event::NewEvents(StartCause::Init) => println!("Wry has started!"),
      Event::WindowEvent {
        event: WindowEvent::CloseRequested,
        ..
      } => *control_flow = ControlFlow::Exit,
      _ => (),
    }
  });
}

Feature flags

Wry uses a set of feature flags to toggle several advanced features. file-drop, protocol, and tray are enabled by default.

• file-drop: Enables with_file_drop_handler to control the behaviour when there are files interacting with the window. Enabled by default.
• protocol: Enables with_custom_protocol to define custom URL scheme for handling tasks like loading assets. Enabled by default.
• tray: Enables system tray and more menu item variants on Linux. This feature requires either libayatana-appindicator or libappindicator package installed. You can still create those types if you disable it. They just don’t create the actual objects.
• devtools: Enables devtools on release builds. Devtools are always enabled in debug builds. On macOS, enabling devtools, requires calling private apis so you should not enable this flag in release build if your app needs to publish to App Store.
• transparent: Transparent background on macOS requires calling private functions. Avoid this in release build if your app needs to publish to App Store.
• fullscreen: Fullscreen video and other media on macOS requires calling private functions. Avoid this in release build if your app needs to publish to App Store.
• dox: Enables this in package.metadata.docs.rs section to skip linking some Linux libraries and prevent from building documentation on doc.rs fails.
• linux-headers: Enables headers support of custom protocol request on Linux. Requires webkit2gtk v2.36 or above.
• tracing: enables tracing for evaluate_script, ipc_handler and `custom_protocols.

Re-exports

• pub use http;

Modules

• application
  Re-exported Tao APIs
• webview
  WebView struct and associated types.

Enums

• Error
  Errors returned by wry.
• Value
  Represents any valid JSON value.

Type Aliases

• Result
  Convenient type alias of Result type for wry.