imgui
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies (by ocornut)
nana
a modern C++ GUI library (by cnjinhao)
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| imgui | nana | |
|---|---|---|
| 166 | 5 | |
| 34,101 | 1,975 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.6 | 0.0 | |
| 6 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| MIT License | Boost Software License 1.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
imgui
Posts with mentions or reviews of imgui.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-21.
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Best C drawing libraries for Wayland?
You could also look into or extract how imgui implemented it's simpler canvas API, that was designed around GPU usage, https://github.com/ocornut/imgui (see ImDrawList).
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I have implemented shader hot-reloading as well as a GLSL text editor in my custom game engine using an OpenGL renderer. One more step closer to ShaderToy.
Cheers! I am using Dear ImGui as the low-level GUI library.
I am using Dear ImGui as the low-level GUI library, meanwhile for the text editor I am using ImGuiColorTextEdit widget.
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GUI for cpp
Dear imgui: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui sounds interesting.
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OpenGL/Metal/Vulkan: How would I go about creating a GUI?
Then you'll basically have to do it yourself or use some form of middleware. Dear Imgui is nice for quick prototyping, and also for the general understanding of how game UIs can be built.
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How do I create a UI for my chip 8 emulator in C++?
Use ihttps://github.com/ocornut/imgui
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OGL - A Great Cross Platform OpenGL Base Library With Almost Everything OpenGL You might Ever need
imgui
- WTF guys!? To all modders: big THANK you!!! Everytime I install a mod game gets so much better! I am on my 2nd playthrough an having a blast this time!!!
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Rendering text and images performance help?
Have you ever heard of dear Imgui?
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OpenGL 3.2 segfault on MacOS 10.15 when calling glDrawElements
A cursory google shows that other people are reporting similar issues. A comment on the second link recommends trying to force the apple driver into using 4.1 core instead of 3.x as apparently it's an entirely different code path.
nana
Posts with mentions or reviews of nana.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-21.
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Best GUI Library for C++?
well, nana seems to still be developed, but it's in another branch for now: https://github.com/cnjinhao/nana/tree/develop-1.8
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Is there a C++ GUI library that works on all platforms
I’ve seen people use https://github.com/cnjinhao/nana, but the other suggestions are probably better.
- Qt alternatives
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Open Source GUI programs in C++
I would suggest https://github.com/cnjinhao/nana . There is also https://github.com/andlabs/libui, although that is C (not C++).
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Modern UI in C++ on Linux
I especially appreciate its one string layout method nana::form::div(), see https://github.com/cnjinhao/nana/wiki/Div-Text
What are some alternatives?
When comparing imgui and nana you can also consider the following projects:
nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
NanoGUI - Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL
wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library
CEGUI
GTK+ - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
FLTK - FLTK - Fast Light Tool Kit - https://github.com/fltk/fltk - cross platform GUI development
MyGUI - Fast, flexible and simple GUI.
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
libui - Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++/Golang. Uses WebKit (Gtk/Cocoa) and Edge (Windows)