The used font is really cruel ... I hope it's interchangeable
It does support changing the font
Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
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Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
#12Before you start picking up a library like this, keep in mind that no immediate-mode GUI library I'm aware of (including this one from what I can see in the source code) has support for assistive technologies such as screen readers.
To them the whole UI is one big black box, so your program is completely useless to anyone with a wide range of disabilities.
Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
#13Immediate mode GUI is a very nifty concept. Kind of like learning about fully persistent data structures for the first time. But I wonder, does it scale?
Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
#14very cool. there are already immediate mode libs with a focus on tools. what i’m more interested in is really great gui libs that make architecting multimedia or audio applications easy without requiring me to learn and use game engines. ideally on top of opengl(es) and linux (arm) support. i am thinking about applications where you want cooler UI effects and UX than what we are all used to, like what you sometimes s…
JUCE is the best option. Shopify came out with React Native Skia, which allows you to draw whatever you need. You can also use Skia directly but it's only a drawing library. I wanted to use something like IMGUI but it's hard to theme and not designed for consumer products. This raygui looks cool but it's bitmap fonts which is no good for i18n.
Edit: Looks like it uses real fonts it just includes a crappy one. I'll have to take a closer look at this.
Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
#15Before you start picking up a library like this, keep in mind that no immediate-mode GUI library I'm aware of (including this one from what I can see in the source code) has support for assistive technologies such as screen readers. To them the whole UI is one big black box, so your program is completely useless to anyone with a wide range of disabilities.
Do operation systems have APIs, so the program can send them what is on the screen? I mean just description like: There is the button with title "Push me" in the rectangle(50, 50, 100, 70), etc.
Or are there any "screen reader" libraries?
Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
#16Before you start picking up a library like this, keep in mind that no immediate-mode GUI library I'm aware of (including this one from what I can see in the source code) has support for assistive technologies such as screen readers. To them the whole UI is one big black box, so your program is completely useless to anyone with a wide range of disabilities.
Do operation systems have APIs, so the program can send them what is on the screen? I mean just description like: There is the button with title "Push me" in the rectangle(50, 50, 100, 70), etc. Or are there any "screen reader" libraries?
There's a10n standards defined by w3c, https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/.
Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
#17Related, check out raylib, the rendering/game engine made by the same author! I’ve used Raylib and raygui on a few RPi based projects and recommend it. It’s a really simple, intuitive way to get an OpenGL-based UI running. Good alternative to web-based UIs because it has similar simplicity but runs on devices with lower specs. I built this pinball machine with raylib: https://youtu.be/iiBn7FVzlcc
This is fantastic, it’s a shame this doesn’t have more views. If it’s okay, I submitted it to the hackaday.com tip line.
Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
#18Before you start picking up a library like this, keep in mind that no immediate-mode GUI library I'm aware of (including this one from what I can see in the source code) has support for assistive technologies such as screen readers. To them the whole UI is one big black box, so your program is completely useless to anyone with a wide range of disabilities.
Do operation systems have APIs, so the program can send them what is on the screen? I mean just description like: There is the button with title "Push me" in the rectangle(50, 50, 100, 70), etc. Or are there any "screen reader" libraries?
Yes. I don’t know about Windows but I know that for OSX you need to implement the NSAccessibility protocol in AppKit. This gives you a way to describe the hierarchy of the UI and to notify the system of important changes.
Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
#19I have seen quite often 'immediate mode gui' on HN and elsewhere these days,I rarely do GUI myself, where are these im-gui's use cases? gaming only? or some embedded boards with limited resources can benefit to draw some pixels on a small LCD for a simple GUI(even that people are more likely use some light-weight x11 like libraries instead of im-gui library)?
Other than game-development why is im-gui better than those normal widget kits we are relatively more familiar with: gtk, qt,etc)? or im-gui is specifically for gaming coding?
Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
#20Would it be possible to define the GUI with XML, Unity just added this officially and it makes life much better. Then you do something like rootGUI.Query("elementID").RegisterCallback( e => otherFunc(e));
The joy of immediate mode guis is that you don't have to register callbacks or manually modify (for example) the visibility of elements in response to some action. Instead you do:
if checkbox(&show_debug, "Show debugging features") {
if button("Run some test") {
test()