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8 | 62 | |
3,323 | 8,495 | |
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6.8 | 8.3 | |
17 days ago | 9 days ago | |
C++ | C | |
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Yue
- This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
- Yue: A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps
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So you want to write a GUI framework (2021)
For a recent project I chose Yue (https://libyue.com/), a cross-platform native widget GUI toolkit with C++, JavaScript/Node.js, and Lua. I've only used the Lua interface and macOS backend, but it has worked quite well, despite the very steep learning curve. This was also my first desktop GUI app, so I had to learn many implicit concepts that weren't obvious from the otherwise extensive documentation.
Yue was also the only option that 1) supported macOS, 2) supported Lua, 3) was sufficiently comprehensive to build a non-toy GUI app, 4) and that I could integrate into my (static) build. I couldn't even get the wxWidgets Lua interfaces to compile, and Qt and Fltk had similar stories, whereas reverse-engineering the baroque Yue build (based on Google's internal build systems) was relatively simple. Yue had some sharp edges, but I was able to work around them whilst patiently waiting for patches and fixes upstream.
Immediate mode interfaces were a non-starter for me. For a non-trivial set of otherwise typical controls and window management you have to implement too much yourself, plus being non-native they not only felt wrong (which admittedly is somewhat subjective; the younger crowd seems to think non-native, immediate mode interfaces look more state-of-the-art), but lacked other interfaces for proper desktop integration, like theme change signaling (i.e. notification that a user switch between light and dark modes in the macOS system settings panel).
All-in-all I would highly recommend Yue.
- WxWidgets 3.2.0 Released
- Yue – A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps
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Gtk4 Tutorial
I settled for Yue: https://github.com/yue/yue It's been around for several years. The deciding factor for me was that is has well maintained Lua bindings as part of the core project alongside JavaScript (Node.js) and C++.
I didn't have much luck with libui (crashes, missing features, etc), and various immediate mode alternatives just require too many dependencies and other work that made integration too painful. Plus, Lua bindings for all these were always stale. In fact, Lua binding quality is pretty poor all around including for GTK, Qt, WxWidgets, and FLTK.
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Portal Windows for Electron
There are many more JavaScript developers than C++ developers.
Personally I like Yue, a cross-platform native toolkit library: https://github.com/yue/yue But much of project was already using Lua, so Node.js and Electron were never viable solutions.
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What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
A native GUI library https://github.com/yue/yue.
It was a disaster when I announced it on Hacker News, and I got numerous harassments from strangers.
But anyway 2 years since then and I'm still working on it.
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.
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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?
Vaca - C++ Win32 wrapper to develop GUI apps
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
NanoGUI - Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL
imgui-node-editor - Node Editor built using Dear ImGui
libui - Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
GTK+ - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library
raygui - A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library