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GUI

RustyRunways ships with two GUIs:

  • Tauri + React desktop app (recommended): a polished UI that bundles the web frontend with a native shell via Tauri. It looks nicer, supports full-screen map, and is available as installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux. See Downloads: Releases.
  • Web Demo: run the same UI in your browser via WebAssembly. Great for a quick try — no install. Play Online
  • egui desktop app: a lightweight Rust/egui client primarily used during early development. It remains available under crates/gui but is not distributed as prebuilt binaries.

Both UIs use the same Core engine and commands. See Core for the game mechanics.

Layout

  • Top header: game title, cash, current time, fleet size, and buttons for Save/Load/Menu/Exit.
  • Right sidebar: stats (income/expenses/deliveries), fleet list (click to open plane), airports list (click to open airport), quick actions.
  • Center: world map with airports and planes; hover for details, click to select, overlapping targets show a context popup.
  • Bottom panel: full‑width game log with sticky scrolling.

Start From Config

  • Main menu includes a “Start From Config” section with:
  • Path input and a Browse file picker (YAML/YML) via native dialog.
  • Preview window listing all parsed airports and fees.
  • Start launches a new game using the YAML config.

Panels & Windows

  • Airport window
  • Overview: ID, location, runway, fees, fuel price.
  • Outstanding orders list.

  • Load Order(s): select single or multiple orders and a plane at this airport; load via buttons.

  • Plane window

  • Overview: model, fuel, payload.
  • Manifest list.
  • Reachable airports (feasibility relative to this plane).
  • Actions: Refuel, Unload All, Maintenance, Sell (parked & empty only).
  • Load Order(s):
    • Filters: destination and min/max weight.
    • Single‑select and multi‑select order lists with detailed labels.
  • Dispatch: destination dropdown and Depart button.

Buying Planes

  • Click “Buy new plane” next to Fleet Overview.
  • In the dialog:
  • Select a model; specs are displayed (price, payload, cruise, fuel, burn, operating cost, runway requirement).
  • Select the starting airport; runway suitability is annotated.
  • Balance indicator shows price, cash, and affordability; purchase is disabled unless cash and runway constraints are satisfied.

Responsiveness & UX

  • Resizable panels and windows; stable sizes for Save/Load and info windows.
  • Multi‑order selection and filters improve throughput when dispatching multiple orders.
  • Log panel spans full width and sticks to the latest message.

Getting the desktop app

  • Download installers from the Releases page. We publish cross‑platform builds for every tagged release. On macOS we ship a universal binary that runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel.
  • Developers can run the app from source:
  • Dev mode: scripts/dev_tauri.sh (starts Vite + Tauri window)
  • Build: cd apps/tauri/src-tauri && cargo tauri build

Limitations in the web demo: - Save/load and YAML scenarios are not available in the browser. Use the Python wrappers, Tauri desktop app, or native Rust builds for those workflows.