Egui supports

[Mehrbod2002]

Support egui as text renderer based on egui-wgpu

https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/master/crates/egui-wgpu

[grovesNL]

Hi! 👋 I'm not sure if I understand why we'd need to support egui directly in glyphon. It seems like matching the wgpu version should be enough to use glyphon with egui already? Please let me know if I'm missing something!

[Mehrbod2002]

Hi @grovesNL ,

I'll explain my situation as an example :
I wanted to create a project which user ables to draw and write down anywhere in windows like whiteboard . I need to working with egui which is compatible framework with wgpu right now . as egui for ui performance use its own application wgpu crate to render ui elements , I couldn't use glypthon for my app . then decide to crate this branch and now it's working great in my crate app , now i have ui , wgpu and glypthon together .

[grovesNL]

Ok thanks for the context. I think you should be able to use glyphon without any changes by making sure the wgpu version matches between glyohob and egui. Does that not work for you?

[Mehrbod2002]

@grovesNL

As I mentioned egui_wgpu and wgpu are similar crates , but can't use wgpu directly in wgpu not compatible and mismatch types error will occur. we have to use egui_wgpu instead .

[grovesNL]

That seems ok though - are you able to use glyphon with egui_wgpu?

I don't think we'll be able to depend on any UI crates directly in glyphon. You could look at iced to see how glyphon support works there as an example.

[Mehrbod2002]

@grovesNL
Yes I am currently using it and works find with this branches .
I just create pull request though it will be useful who has the same problem too .

[grovesNL]

I mean you should be able to use them together like you're doing without the changes in this PR, if the wgpu versions are the same.

[Mehrbod2002]

@grovesNL
No . it is impossible . egui has its own implementation and extras features for render by help of wgpu.

[grovesNL]

@Mehrbod2002 have you checked some of the other approaches like https://github.com/StratusFearMe21/egui-glyphon ? This doesn't seem to require changes to glyphon.