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Similar projects and alternatives to imgui
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LearnOpenGL
Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com
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InfluxDB
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slint
Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, JavaScript, or Python apps.
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JUCE
JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.
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ImHex
🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.
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Hence, a higher number means a better imgui alternative or higher similarity.
imgui discussion
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- Open Source Can't Coordinate
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Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)
I find the imgui UIs to be very high density (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui and the gallery issues) See for example the tracy profiler: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy. It seems the game dev community has pretty powerful tools to understand and interrogate their work.
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Lumix - a .NET open source ableton like DAW
The user interface has been entirely developed using immediate mode gui dear-imgui library, with the ImGui.NET wrapper. This allows for a fast and bloat free experience but, at the same time, harder customization for a task of this size, since the library isn't really suited to the development of end-user applications. On the other side, it's what I'm most familiar to work with.
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What do you think about using a game engine for UI?
I've recently had a lot of fun/success with Dear ImGui (C++) -- not a game engine, but originally/partly meant for use in them. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
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Show HN: ImPlot3D – A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui
You can manually transform vertices (call ImGui::ShadeVertsTransformPos) this is what angled headers are using https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/6917
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- Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux
- Rewriting Rust
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Microui+fenster=Small GUI
Cool project! Graphics programming is _hard_ and anything to make it easier is welcome.
Maybe a dumb question, but why not Imgui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui). "It's way too big and complex" is a completely reasonable answer, but I found it fantastic for debug menus, and there are a few applications that have used it as their _main_ GUI (Ship of Harkinian as an example).
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Building cross-platform GUI apps in Rust using egui
The most well known immediate mode GUI framework, which egui is also inspired by, is Dear imgui. The egui repository also has a section on the trade offs when it comes to immediate mode GUIs, which I would definitely recommend you check out.
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ocornut/imgui is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of imgui is C++.
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