Re closed topic Rust+ Iced - Run code when app starts

This refers to the question Rust + Iced - Run code when app starts which is marked as solved and closed. I had a similar question and I did not like the solution given. The questioner asked if there was a way to auto click a button as part of the Iced application starting in order to initialise a data structure. The solution was to write some more code in State::new() to do it, which duplicates what happens when the button is pressed. For my use that doesn't really work because I have a bunch ...