Basalt VS helium

One of the biggest feature is XML support. You are now able to add your design via XML (if you want to). It could look like that: basaltPreview2.xml - but maybe it shouldn't look like that (i am sometimes lazy!). You are also able to do it in multiple files, because you always load the xml layout into a frame. You would use baseframe:addLayout(path) subframe:addLayout(anotherPath). It always starts to create the layout based on the frame where you are using the command. You could also do that via xml:

Here is my github page: github Here you can find the wiki: wiki

I wonder if something like helium that handles click detection but not rendering would still seem like overkill. Definitely beyond your bare metal goals, but might be simpler than trying to customize styling in a UI framework.

You could use a library like slab (which lets you just add buttons but may not be so straight forward to deeply customize your look) or helium (which facilitates creating a UI system for buttons, but may not be straightforward to use). I use slab for my debug UI and like it, but haven't tried it for nice-looking game UI.