imgui VS webview

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/3075#issuecomment-60...

2nded.

Is there a macOs equivalent of the Windows Internals [0] books?

I recently came across ImGui [1] which uses C++. I assume that cross platform software from Adobe, Microsoft, etc have C++ at their core and would love to find more in the way of resources for C++ on mac. Anyone?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-architecture-m...

[1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

Currently, I have narrowed potential libraries to: 1. Flutter 2. FLTK 3. Relm (GTK) 4. iced 5. Slint 6. Imgui, Imgui-rs 7. and gtk-rs

Imgui, Imgui-rs

Dear ImGui easy to use and understand immediate mode is simple to understand and fits games with a render loop Small file size Con: Doesn't look like your native OS widgets

- X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual

However they have very little to do with how modern operating systems (Windows, MacOS) deal with that stuff.

As for toys, I'd recommend reading about Dear ImGui [1]. It handles everything you mentioned while being self-contained so you can see how everything works from top to bottom. Many talks and articles have been written about it though I can't vouch for any of them.

1. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki

Check out these: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui https://github.com/mikke89/RmlUi

ImGUI (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) probably as simple as it can get

From a more established company with more guaranteed long-term support than the web frameworks that solve the above problems (like Tauri and Webview)

lower lever/simpler than wails is https://github.com/webview/webview

WebView : Uses a WebView control

BTW, I'm using WebView, it's awesome, not as portable as WebUI but still awesome.

There is webview, a low level C library with various bindings that can be used to create a webview using os provided browser and interact with it. Wrt. featureset its is a lot more simpler and lower level than both electron and wails.

https://github.com/webview/webview

I can't find anything related to this. I need to get the Handle so I can pass it to this webview library https://github.com/webview/webview/blob/master/webview.h. This documentation only references WinUI3 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/ui-input/retrieve-hwnd

There are a few libraries like this: https://github.com/webview/webview on Windows it uses Microsoft’s WebView2 API so the application can be rather small.

Yesterday, I came across this project: https://wails.io/ Is it just my paranoia, or is there some big catch? Doesn't it seem too good to be true?? 😄 Recently, I've been working on a project in Go and I needed a simple, lightweight multiplatform GUI - after exhausting pretty much every option (Qt - bothersome; Ultralight - doesn't work on ARM (M1); Electron - too heavy; Fyne - not robust enough; etc.), I settled for webviews. Now I found the wails project and it just seems to be too good, there simply has to be some kind of a catch. Looks like a simple API, the use of a native HTML/JS engine (ie. no embedded/shared libs, like webviews), support for things like native dialogs, resources embedded in the final bin, etc.

I've tried CLOG with this and it works fine: https://github.com/webview/webview . I think that's an interesting lightweight alternative depending on the project.