Displaying a Vec<String>

[pieterdd]

I'm quite new to Slint. Let's say I have a Vec<String> in my Rust code. What's the most straightforward way to inject it into a Slint window and have the window automatically react to changes in the vector?

The closest example I've seen so far is actually a Vec<SharedString> (which I suppose I could map the vector items to) that's used to create a reference-counted VecModel which is used to create a ModelRc. Is this the best available option?

[ogoffart]

Right, you will want to map the Vec to a Vec.
You can do something like so:

let my_vec : Vec<String> = ...;
let my_vec : Vec<slint::SharedString> = my_vec.into_iter().map(Into::into).collect();
let model = slint::ModelRc::new(VecModel::from(vec!["Hello".into(), "World".into()]));

my_ui.set_some_property(model);

(I haven't tried this code)

If you want to automatically react to change in the vector, you may want to have a Rc<VecModel<SharedString>> instead and operate in that instead of on the Vec<String>

[pieterdd]

In that case I'll update my data model to use slint::SharedString instead of String, keeping type conversions and other friction to a minimum. Thanks for the advice Olivier!