Fully port `cefsimple` sample from C++ version

[lonnietc]

Hello,

I am exploring cef and also getting into Rust while coming from a C/C++ background and for the project that I am working on, I was initially going to use the C++ cefcleint design, but came across your cef-rs which looks very good.

I see that there is a cefsimple example but since I also need to be able to have browser tabs, I was wondering if there are any plans for porting the cefclient to the Rust framework?

Thanks and have a great day

[wravery]

This is definitely something I'd like to do in the future, I just haven't had time to tackle it myself lately. PRs making progress on this would be welcome. 👍🏼

[lonnietc]

Hello and Thanks for getting back to me.

I am able to compile and run your cefsimple but have not yet had any luck in adding multiple tabs to it so far. For my project, I am trying to develop a type of web-tab containers to run SLM (Small Language Models) instead of LLM (Large Language Models) in browser based systems. Think of this as a type of Docker with Shared GPU support across the containers, and I think that your cef-rs framework could really be an integral part. Maybe I could get you on board with the effort if you are interested, but it sounds like you are pretty busy as well.

On a side note, in your main page README for the "Run the cefsimple Example" section, you are missing one part of the path which should include "/src/" (corrected below)

cp ./examples/cefsimple/src/win/cefsimple.exe.manifest ./target/debug/
cargo run --bin cefsimple

Thanks again

[wravery]

I'll keep using this to track completing the cefsimple example. Right now, it's much less comprehensive than the C++ version.

[lonnietc]

Hello @wravery,

Thanks for getting back to me on these questions and I was trying to locate some documentation on your cer-rs functions and methods but could not locate a lot.

What I really need right now is a way in the cefsimple example to have it change the position in which it stores the "User Data" as right now it stores it in:

USERPROFILE\AppData\Local\CEF\User Data

I need to be able to change that location to somewhere else from within the cefsimple.rs by using your cef-rs library so that it could be changed programmatically to perhaps the below as an example:

C:\test\path\User Data

How can I modify the cefsimple.rs to achieve this?

Thanks and have a great day