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Top 23 C++ GUI Projects
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Project mention: Flameshot – Powerful, yet simple to use open-source screenshot software | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-11
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Project mention: NSA Ghidra open-source reverse engineering framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-28
Rizin[1]/Cutter[2] projects are stored like text files that work well with git, you could try those tools.
[1] https://rizin.re
[2] https://cutter.re
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DearPyGui
Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies
For native GUI, DearPyGui[0] as modern as you can.
For browser web-based GUI, you can use nicegui[1]
[0] -- https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui
[1] -- https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui
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webview
Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
Project mention: webview: Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-28 -
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nodegui
A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS 🚀. React NodeGui : https://react.nodegui.org and Vue NodeGui: https://vue.nodegui.org
Project mention: Brig: A user interface toolkit for Node.js, which is based on Qt for rendering | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-20This looks like it hasn't been maintained in years but there's a modern equivalent in NodeGUI [1] which also has React/Svelte/Vue implementations. Unfortunately it requires a custom build of Node that merges the libuv and Qt6 event loops so YMMV.
It actually inspired me to write my own implementation with Svelte on top of QuickJS and Qt Widgets but the task of wrapping the entire Qt6 API in Rust proved to be intractable once I found out that most methods weren't marked Q_INVOKABLE and thus couldn't be called via reflection (requiring manual wrapping). Providing a `Document.createElement` API that created Qt Widgets with working attributes and event handling worked surprisingly well though!
[1] https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui
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Project mention: Bombed an interview and trying to figure out how to pivot. Any advice on on increasing code literacy and filling in knowledge gaps from EE? | /r/embedded | 2023-12-06
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FTXUI
Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang
libaloo is a C library which uses GTK4 behind the scenes to create an GTK application It’s mainly written in C. It also has a CLI and CLI with TUI written in C++ with FtxUI but to set it up, Python is used.
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Windows UI Library
Windows UI Library: the latest Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications
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Project mention: Solitaire: Authentic remake of the Windows 95 original | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17
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Project mention: Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn" | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-16
ImPlot is small and worth checking out if you don't want to make the plotting functions yourself. https://github.com/epezent/implot
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Project mention: Show HN: Serverless collaborative notion-level note editor using CRDT in GO | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-07
Thanks! I'm not 100% sure about this, still hearing feedback from people on both ends. Some reasons for the switch would be:
1. File versioning
2. Easier self-hosted syncing
3. Better data portability (although we already support exporting to .txt)
I would love to hear counterpoints. Currently, SQLite works pretty well, and our custom database is pretty simple (plus, our database code is also open source[1]).
[1] https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/blob/master/src/dbmanag....
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Project mention: This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-18
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Project mention: RmlUi – The HTML/CSS User Interface Library Evolved | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-17
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Project mention: Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-11
I think Sciter is probably the better comparison:
https://sciter.com/
It is a ground-up implementation of HTML and CSS rendering. IIRC it used to have its own programming language but now uses JS.
I’ve long been interested in this kind of thing but haven’t actually played with Sciter in depth. Used to be that the licensing was a concern but looking at the site now it seems the terms have changed to be much more flexible.
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QRhi is pretty much the exact same goal than pygfx with a different implementation: https://github.com/qt/qtbase/tree/dev/src/gui/rhi
I've been using it for 4-ish years now in https://ossia.io
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GacUI
GPU Accelerated C++ User Interface, with WYSIWYG developing tools, XML supports, built-in data binding and MVVM features.
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C++ GUI discussion
C++ GUI related posts
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libaloo (Aloo)
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Microui+fenster=Small GUI
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About the IMGUI Paradigm
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ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library
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About the Imgui Paradigm
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10 Years of Dear ImGui
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Tvision – A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0
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Index
What are some of the best open-source GUI projects in C++? This list will help you:
Project | Stars | |
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1 | imgui | 60,967 |
2 | flameshot | 24,965 |
3 | cutter | 15,830 |
4 | DearPyGui | 13,229 |
5 | webview | 12,638 |
6 | Open3D | 11,426 |
7 | nodegui | 8,905 |
8 | Stacer | 8,878 |
9 | GuiLite | 7,390 |
10 | FTXUI | 6,944 |
11 | Windows UI Library | 6,354 |
12 | wxWidgets | 6,154 |
13 | Duilib | 5,712 |
14 | implot | 4,779 |
15 | NanoGUI | 4,660 |
16 | notes | 3,817 |
17 | ricochet | 3,704 |
18 | Yue | 3,440 |
19 | Elements C++ GUI library | 3,131 |
20 | RmlUi | 2,865 |
21 | sciter | 2,577 |
22 | Qt | 2,486 |
23 | GacUI | 2,347 |