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microui
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Immediate Mode GUI Programming
There is also microui, which I like[0].
Which I forked to work with SDL2[1], no guarantees. It's fun to hack on.
[0]https://github.com/rxi/microui
[1]https://github.com/kennethrapp/microui
- MicroUI: Tiny immediate-mode UI library
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What should I use to make GUI with SDL
Otherwise, https://github.com/rxi/microui is small enough that you can hack around. Look at the issue though, there's a bit of unaligned access there.
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ImGui or text rendering libraries
For GUI, there are lots, most well-known of course being Dear Imgui, for which people have made auto-generated C bindings. Another mature but a lot simpler option is Nuklear, as others have mentioned. Even more minimalistic (it's just 1KLOC) is microui. There are a lot more, just google "imgui library c".
- A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, text editor written in C, and Lua
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Nuklear – A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
The price for the 'lightest' UI toolkit probably goes to microui:
https://github.com/rxi/microui
Just around 1100 lines of C code.
You need to bring your own renderer, but that's the same for Nuklear or Dear ImGui.
I wrote a WASM wrapper for the microui demo too:
https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/sgl-microui-sapp.html
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I made a shortlist of good libraries for my GUI C project and I want your thoughts and comments.
Good C library list: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/links/libs https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear + C89, no dependencies, public license. 5/5 https://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/ + good tutorial and wiki guides 5/5 https://libsdl.org/ + infinite possibilities - whole library for making games, forums, wiki - complicated, not many C tutorials, need to manage game states... 4/5 https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl + good docs - for embedded systems 4/5 https://github.com/ocornut/imgui + Popular, inspired Nuklear - for C++ 3/5 https://docs.enlightenment.org/api/imlib2/html/ + very efficient, used in Conky - uses X so only for Linux, just for displaying images and text and stuff 2/5 https://github.com/rxi/microui + simple, small - you need to handle your own drawing 2/5 GTK+ - no
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I haven't been using Linux that much yet, but because of my experience with Xfce, and because others don't seem to enjoy desktop environments on Linux too much, I want to create my own.
Really? Here's a minimal UI with I believe less LOC than Suckless DWM. It's not a full DE, but I imagine you could probably turn it into one without adding that much more code.
- Best way to write a cross-platform graphical program in C while using only bare minimum third-party libraries?
- resources for making a gui library
nuklear
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Using Jolt with flecs & Dear ImGui: Game Physics Introspection
Nuklear is an alternative Immediate GUI, also written in C.
- Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?
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LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
> And for the right project, especially those where a predefined engine structure does not not fit, it can still be the most productive choice.
Right on. While interning at an oil refinery, I developed an application in LÖVE that processes and displays data from spectrometers. In hindsight it may not have been the wisest choice, but hand rolling all the GUI elements I couldnt force out of the Nuklear[0] bindings for LÖVE gave me a strange sense of satisfaction.
[0]: https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear
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Looking for a Julia gui framework with a demo like EGUI
No, Nuklear has been updated 2 days ago.
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Is there no simple GUI library for pure C?
I think good option would be nuklear it is a single header lib
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ImGui or text rendering libraries
For GUI, there are lots, most well-known of course being Dear Imgui, for which people have made auto-generated C bindings. Another mature but a lot simpler option is Nuklear, as others have mentioned. Even more minimalistic (it's just 1KLOC) is microui. There are a lot more, just google "imgui library c".
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GUI frameworks for an SDL-based roguelike?
What about https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear ?
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Looking for minimal UI framework which will work with SDL2/OpenGL
Nuklear? They have a number of backends.
- CLib: Header-only C library that implements the most important classes from GLib
- Nuklear – A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
What are some alternatives?
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
sokol - minimal cross-platform standalone C headers
imgui-node-editor - Node Editor built using Dear ImGui
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.
libui - Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
pixeltoaster - PixelToaster is a framebuffer library for C++
NanoGUI - Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL
minifb - MiniFB is a small cross platform library to create a frame buffer that you can draw pixels in
GTK+ - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
nuklear
raygui - A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library