crosspostato da: https://lemmy.world/post/1916287

Hi everybody, I’m new to Rust.

So, I have a struct Panel which contains a data widget which implements the trait Widget I have to implement a function for Panel that uses another function that requires a type that implements Widget.

I tried Box<T>, Rc<T>, Box<dyn Widget, &T, but nothing, always compiler errors.

How can I fix this?

  • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Use self.widget?

    Maybe show some code of what you’re trying to do.

    • djtech@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yes, obviously, but there are de-referincing/borrwowing/trait problem.

      If you want to check the Trait: https://docs.rs/ratatui/latest/ratatui/widgets/trait.Widget.html

      If you want to check what function do I need to run: https://docs.rs/ratatui/latest/ratatui/terminal/struct.Frame.html#method.render_widget

      So the struct is something like struct Panel<T: Widget> { data: T } (tried also with Box, Rc, &mut T and Box<dyn Widget>

      I need to implement a method for Panel which simply uses the function linked above. (so just asks for a Frame, the Rect type is generated by my other function)

      • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        That function takes ownership of the Widget, there’s no borrowing here. Maybe that’s the problem, that you’re passing a reference instead of the actual object?

        So, if you have a Panel containing the Widget, the function you’re calling render_widget in has to take self, not &self or &mut self.

        Alternatively, you can use data: Option<T> in Panel, let the function take &mut self and then use self.data.take() to move it out of self.

        • djtech@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I checked the code and noticed that I wrote &self as the parameter 🤦🏻

          Now everything works. Thanks man

      • akash_rawal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Seems like data: T or data: &'a mut T should work for you. Your function should be accepting mut self or &mut self.

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
    1·
    11 months ago

    The first problem I saw is that Widget::render takes self by value, meaning that the widget will be destroyed after being rendered once. The need to satisfy that method’s type could be the cause of the other errors you’re running into.