Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI

• egui

  203 19,719 9.8 Rust

  egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

Just wanted to add that I think that's going to be added soon, I see there's a pull request[0] to get those in. Seems like development on this is pretty active

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[0]: https://github.com/emilk/egui/pull/543

• imgui

  351 55,717 9.7 C++

  Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

I haven't looked at the usage pattern/implementation but the visuals are much nicer to the eyes than ImGui[1].

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

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• bevy_egui_a11y

  1 2 0.0 Rust

Blind screen reader user and game developer here.

As of a recent release, egui pushes out some events that I'm able to consume and provide TTS feedback for. You can find a simple Bevy example with a bit of event coverage here:

https://github.com/ndarilek/bevy_egui_a11y

In my game, I'm able to use this for buttons, checkboxes, and single-line text edit fields. Sliders are a bit wonky but I'm hoping to eventually get those working better as well. Much of this development is needs-driven for me, and as of now I only need these few widgets. I certainly wouldn't complain if coverage improved, though. :)

Before anyone jumps on me about screen readers not being the accessibility end game, I do know that. But as a totally blind developer myself, I can't easily work on solutions for low vision, high contrast, etc. And for my needs (simple keyboard navigable game UIs for games targeted at blind players) it works well enough, and should hopefully get better soon.

For true cross-platform accessibility with integrations into native APIs, we'll need something like https://accesskit.dev.

• FLTK

  18 1,502 9.8 C++

  FLTK - Fast Light Tool Kit - https://github.com/fltk/fltk - cross platform GUI development

  

I've always enjoyed making little apps with Immediate mode GUIs. It's a shame that they aren't as effective as retained GUIs for more complex apps.

When I was still programming in Rust FLTK was the only GUI I used that both worked on my Raspberry Pi 4 and was something I felt like I could grasp. I'm not sure if that is retained or immediate or not. I wish the OS maintainers would all get their act together and create an api that made creating cross platform GUIs easier. You can't blame people for using Electron when you see the state of desktop GUIs

1. https://github.com/fltk/fltk

• Quasar Framework

  159 25,202 9.9 JavaScript

  Quasar Framework - Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time

  

Amazing review. Thanks for posting.

Since you are experienced in GUI tech, what cross-platform solution do you think "has got it right"? I like QT apps alot for snappiness alone.

What do you think of https://quasar.dev/ and https://ionicframework.com/ ?

• Ionic Framework

  129 50,386 9.9 TypeScript

  A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

  

Amazing review. Thanks for posting.

Since you are experienced in GUI tech, what cross-platform solution do you think "has got it right"? I like QT apps alot for snappiness alone.

What do you think of https://quasar.dev/ and https://ionicframework.com/ ?

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