Imgui Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Idc what anyone says, this meny will allways be remeberd as the best https://lunacheats.com/index.php?whats-new/
  reddit.com/r/Gta5Modding | 2021-09-19

  https://github.com/ocornut/imgui it's a gui library that bbv2 uses

• Is there a de-facto standard of C++ TUI library?
  reddit.com/r/cpp | 2021-09-17

  I wouldn't call it standard, but https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui is pretty cool. It puts https://github.com/ocornut/imgui over ncurses.

• How did "learning to code" become synonymous to "learning front end web development" for so many people?
  reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions | 2021-09-15

  Ah yes Robotics! Im glad someone mentioned it. The biggest elephant in the room imo. Also cool to see youre working on webapps. QT can be a pain and it has not aged well. A nice alternative was imgui if you're targeting desktops but as you found react is the clear winner. React has a nice foundation to optimize the render component. The render components are fantastic! What kind of rendering are you doing? Do you plan to expand the native components for your webapp?

• Making UI for an engine
  reddit.com/r/gameenginedevs | 2021-09-10

  I'm also using Dear ImGui and definitely recommend it. It's under active development and continues to improve regularly. Writing immediate mode GUI code takes a little getting used to if you're coming from other backgrounds, but it's very easy to use once you get going with it. If you ever get stuck or need to figure out how to use a particular widget, check out the imgui demo code, it's got tons of examples of how to do stuff.

• Best lenguage for making a game from scratch?
  reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-09-08

  I absolutely agree with C++/OpenGL/GLFW. I would add Dear Imgui for ui, GLM for math. Bonus: CMake is great if you want to have a clean project that you can share on github. And you can use the CLion IDE which is awsome for C++. I have been making an engine myself with a similar setup that you can checkout here.

  reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-09-08

  If you don't want to use an engine, but you don't want to go into OS specific stuff: https://www.sfml-dev.org/ https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

• Is there SDL2 ready to use dialogs/controls?
  reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-09-08

  Thanks, this seems to be just what is needed. If I understand correctly, your link is to renderer only, which is a "glue", and imgui repository is needed for controls implementation. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

• The operating system: should there be one?
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-09-07

  Dear ImGui does not support Arabic (right-to-left, glyph shaping) and will not support Arabic (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1343). I don't think it supports accessibility either.

  As much as I struggle with Qt's APIs (aging janky Widgets, half-baked QML on the desktop, the item models are an impenetrable byzantine enterprisey API that's simultaneously too open-ended, not flexible enough since it imposes its add/remove/move schema on your model, and too buggy), building a GUI from the ground up is not going to give you internationalization or accessibility, and Qt is.

  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-09-07

  I love the immediate mode style of developing, but ImGUI specifically, at least without third party patches and extensions, has very awkward and limited layout (for example, I'm still waiting for this to get merged[1], which would make it easier), its styling support is relatively minimal (but it can be made look pretty nice) and its accessibility support is non-existent. I also find the API slightly clunky, although its not bad once you get used to it.

  Overall, I really like Dear ImGUI and I love how easy it is to expose data to a UI through it. Its much more pleasant to use than a traditional retained mode widgets API. But Dear ImGUI isn't a good general purpose UI (nor was it designed to be one), although I could see the immediate mode API work well for one. I started making a complex editor for a toy engine in it and while it worked ok, the reasons above made me cut it back to just some basic in-engine stuff and the rest is exposed over an optional embedded web server module and a react app as the editor. Its only a toy, but you would use the in-engine ImGUI editor to see the scene rendered in-engine, move objects around etc, but you would use the react app to edit object properties, add assets and behaviours and whatnot. It made it much easier to create rich editors for things like behavior trees, node graphs, etc. Although since its just a toy, I didn't implement a lot of this stuff yet and haven't had time lately to get back to it.

  [1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/pull/846

  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-09-07

  Maybe you want to help this person who is trying to integrate harfbuzz: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/4227

  The other major thing missing in relation to that is input method support.

  The problem with those type of APIs and accessibility is that implementing screen reader support basically means making it retained mode in some capacity, because accessibility APIs expect you to export a tree of objects and push state updates.

• LuaPad - A tool to test your Lua idea ... in your browser
  reddit.com/r/lua | 2021-09-04

  The ability to create files / import github: I'm not quite sure which way is the best to implement Subpixel AA: This would require changing the imgui backend to a fork (see https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/2468 and https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/pull/2986)

• - ImGui is a
  reddit.com/r/u_arjan2680uh | 2021-09-04

  ImGui is a popular library written by ocornut, it can make awesome user interface based on directx.

• Basic visualization when coding with C++?
  reddit.com/r/Cplusplus | 2021-08-31

  If you want to write everything then I'd suggest taking a look at SFML and imGUI

• Writing Programs with Ncurses
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-08-30

  ImTui provides an ncurses interface for this. It uses the ncurses API to render the characters in the terminal and also to grab input from the keyboard and the mouse.

  Technically, ncurses is an overkill for this application, since ImTui only uses only a very small subset of the ncurses functions. But this was the easiest way to make it work.

  ImTui can be extended with more interfaces. For example, I made a second one which I call "Emscripten" interface. It's purpose is to provide an API to easily export the framebuffer to the JS layer and to easily grab input back from the JS layer. This way, I can have a single application code that builds and runs both in the terminal and on the web.

  [0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

• graphics api for a game engine
  reddit.com/r/cpp | 2021-08-22

  GUI in game engines is a whole can of worms. You can use something like imgui to get you most of the way there, but even that project only recommends it for debug UI.