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Top 23 C GUI Projects
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webview
Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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libui
Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
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linux-wifi-hotspot
Feature-rich wifi hotspot creator for Linux which provides both GUI and command-line interface. It is also able to create a hotspot using the same wifi card which is connected to an AP already ( Similar to Windows 10).
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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webui
Use any web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend and HTML5 in the frontend, all in a lightweight portable lib.
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nuklear
This project provides Go bindings for nuklear.h — a small ANSI C GUI library. (by golang-ui)
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IconFontCppHeaders
C and C++ headers, C# and Python classes, Rust files and Go package for icon fonts Font Awesome, Fork Awesome, Google Material Design, Pictogrammers Material Design icons, Kenney game icons, Fontaudio, Codicons and Lucide.
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GUIslice
GUIslice drag & drop embedded GUI in C for touchscreen TFT on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ARM, ESP8266 / ESP32 / M5stack using Adafruit-GFX / TFT_eSPI / UTFT / SDL
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Project mention: Ask HN: Nobody interested an open hardware iPod Nano? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-29So here is the thing: The iPod Nano 7g is from 2012. I've seen many people designing custom PCBs and releasing Kickstarter projects for custom audio players[5] or game handhelds[6]. I know Rockbox (which is great, but its lacks support for Wifi and Bluetooth AFAIK and just does not compete with the UX of iPod's audio book features in my opinion) and iPod Linux. 10 years ago someone even reverse engineered the iPod Nano 6g display[3].
Although I'm not skilled enough in PCB-Design, after some research I found the Lilygo T-Display S3 Pro[4] based on ESP32 S3, which would be the size, but lacks audio and OS. There is also the Mango PI CyberPad[7], which looked interesting, but maybe is already too clunky.
Programming wise, LVGL[8] may be a good framework to develop a modern and efficient UI - at least it looks promising.
So, why is nobody interested in recreating an iPod nano like device? It should be doable with modern tech, but Phones have completely taken over the marked...
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobooks/comments/14ue4un/comment/ks1sj99/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
2: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf-app/issues/847
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TedIzmguP0
4: https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-display-s3-pro
5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C597AkhGtw
6: https://www.funkey-project.com/
7: https://mangopi.org/cp1m
8: https://lvgl.io/
Project mention: Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-09You can create the webview using each platforms native GUI toolkit and setup JS communication yourself OR you can use a lightweight library that does it for [1] (search its README for language "bindings").
[1] https://github.com/webview/webview
Project mention: Short history of all Windows UI frameworks and libraries | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-10You can kind of see the desktop UI train wreck in real time here.
We started with simple stable APIs for a common look and feel. For a while these were evolved and made available in other languages. This was back when native apps were consistent and intuitive and you could… uhh… actually write and ship them without bundling giant runtimes or checking a huge compatibility matrix.
Then around 2012 the train rounds the bend and screeeeech it hits some bad track and starts to derail. UI starts trying to emulate the web, a terrible UI platform, and sane compositional UI libraries and APIs are abandoned in favor of XML soup.
Since this stuff is a trash fire, this is followed by multiple incompatible attempts to replace or fix this. Most of these are abandoned dead ends.
Meanwhile the dev community just said fuck it and went to Electron, creating today’s world where a “hello world” app with an OK button is hundreds of megabytes and has to load an entire private copy of a language runtime and rendering engine.
Versions of this comedy of errors have occurred on every other platform, and of course there has been little effort to create a cross platform UI API that’s sane beyond Qt (with its own problems) and dozens of half completed OSS projects.
So enjoy Electron I guess.
There was one sane human being who tried to do this a while ago:
https://github.com/andlabs/libui
It’s the only sane desktop UI project I’ve seen in almost 20 years, an attempt to create an actual cross platform common API. But it’s abandoned of course, likely too difficult for one dev and nobody is going to provide financial support for anything that sane.
Maybe AI will get good enough some day that we can use it to do a thing like that.
Project mention: Using Jolt with flecs & Dear ImGui: Game Physics Introspection | dev.to | 2024-04-17Nuklear is an alternative Immediate GUI, also written in C.
Project mention: AWTK = Toolkit AnyWhere(a cross-platform embedded GUI) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-07
About the UI interface, I created raygui a simple immediate-mode UI library, you can also take a look: https://github.com/raysan5/raygui
Wi-Fi hotspot: https://github.com/lakinduakash/linux-wifi-hotspot
Project mention: Use any web browser as GUI, with Zig in the back end and HTML5 in the front end | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-01It's not confidence-inspiring that https://webui.me throws security warnings. I'd want folks to make applications "that make applications" to take security a little more seriously.
Project Github link: https://github.com/0015/ThatProject/tree/master/ESP32_MICROPHONE/ESP32_INMP441_SPEECH_TO_TEXT
Clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
I've proposed such solution in Lagrange feature request. What do you think?
Project mention: C# program not able to open or connect to an encrypted SQLite Database | /r/sqlite | 2023-04-30DB4S provides only one algorithm based on official SQLite cipher. You can encrypt your database with another in SQLiteStudio or sqlite-gui (I'm an author). Both applications use SQLite3 Multiple Ciphers-library.
The latest version can be found at: https://pdcurses.org/
Project mention: Introducing OSINT Template Engine: An open source OSINT Tool. | /r/websecurityresearch | 2023-07-12
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C GUI related posts
- Using Jolt with flecs & Dear ImGui: Game Physics Introspection
- Ask HN: Nobody interested an open hardware iPod Nano?
- RSGL | Modular header-only cross-platform GUI Library for easily creating GUI software your way!
- RGFW: Simple, multi-platform single-header C framework for GUI library, programs
- Short history of all Windows UI frameworks and libraries
- Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability
- LVGL 9.0 Released
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Index
What are some of the best open-source GUI projects in C? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | lvgl | 14,890 |
| 2 | webview | 12,005 |
| 3 | libui | 10,590 |
| 4 | nuklear | 8,515 |
| 5 | awtk | 2,991 |
| 6 | raygui | 2,966 |
| 7 | linux-wifi-hotspot | 2,819 |
| 8 | webui | 2,028 |
| 9 | iPlug2 | 1,798 |
| 10 | IdeasNProjects | 1,680 |
| 11 | nuklear | 1,560 |
| 12 | GTK+ | 1,345 |
| 13 | helenos | 1,287 |
| 14 | lagrange | 1,147 |
| 15 | IconFontCppHeaders | 1,098 |
| 16 | GUIslice | 1,092 |
| 17 | sqlite-gui | 1,046 |
| 18 | PDCurses | 976 |
| 19 | kernel | 639 |
| 20 | microwindows | 613 |
| 21 | ghost | 559 |
| 22 | OTE | 462 |
| 23 | mednaffe | 390 |
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