Libui: a portable GUI library for C
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Libui: a portable GUI library for C
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Re: Libui: a portable GUI library for C
#2Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11735393
Re: Libui: a portable GUI library for C
#3I might be interested, esp. since it claims Python bindings, but documentation appears to be nil. Seriously, nonexistent. A GUI lib surely has an API complex enough to require _some_ kind of reference docs, at least. But the contents of the doc folder[1] are just a joke, most of the files contain single lines, and the .md files are fragments with many "TODO" notes.
So OK maybe I can get some insight reading the code. The "common" folder seems a good place to start[2]. Um, no. Short, generic uninformative filenames ("matrix.c", "control.c") and very few introductory comments. The opposite of "literate programming".
Re: Libui: a portable GUI library for C
#4I might be interested, esp. since it claims Python bindings, but documentation appears to be nil. Seriously, nonexistent. A GUI lib surely has an API complex enough to require _some_ kind of reference docs, at least. But the contents of the doc folder[1] are just a joke, most of the files contain single lines, and the .md files are fragments with many "TODO" notes. So OK maybe I can get some insight reading the code.…
The readme specifically says it has no docs and asks users to look at the main header file.
Re: Libui: a portable GUI library for C
#5I might be interested, esp. since it claims Python bindings, but documentation appears to be nil. Seriously, nonexistent. A GUI lib surely has an API complex enough to require _some_ kind of reference docs, at least. But the contents of the doc folder[1] are just a joke, most of the files contain single lines, and the .md files are fragments with many "TODO" notes. So OK maybe I can get some insight reading the code.…
try the examples folder.
Re: Libui: a portable GUI library for C
#6What a surprise, so there are alternatives to Electron garbage! Who knew!
Re: Libui: a portable GUI library for C
#7What a surprise, so there are alternatives to Electron garbage! Who knew!
Qt? Although it has its own problems, the end product is often way better than Electron.
Re: Libui: a portable GUI library for C
#8What a surprise, so there are alternatives to Electron garbage! Who knew!
Qt? Although it has its own problems, the end product is often way better than Electron.
It may have changed since I last gave it a shot previously one annoyance I had with Qt was binary distribution. Getting it all packaged up correctly for each platform is much less than straightforward and if your app isn’t FOSS it’s exacerbated by LGPL linking requirements. It should really be a simple, single button process.
Re: Libui: a portable GUI library for C
#9No Documentation? Documentation as an afterthought is not a good sign that this was well thought out. How about a white paper? A tutorial? Just code?
Re: Libui: a portable GUI library for C
#10I might be interested, esp. since it claims Python bindings, but documentation appears to be nil. Seriously, nonexistent. A GUI lib surely has an API complex enough to require _some_ kind of reference docs, at least. But the contents of the doc folder[1] are just a joke, most of the files contain single lines, and the .md files are fragments with many "TODO" notes. So OK maybe I can get some insight reading the code.…
The entire API is 1100 lines. https://github.com/andlabs/libui/blob/master/ui.h You don't need a separate documentation for that. In fact, most functions have sufficient docstrings if their names don't fully describe their function.
Your hostility toward an MIT licensed project is what is ruining the open-contribution model of developing software. In 2005, it was "Hey, this looks great, want me to write up a documentation?" Now it's "Not up to my standards, it's a joke." Absolutely disgusting behavior that is becoming gradually more common.