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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

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Post by b20000 »

very 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 see in games. i just don’t want to do all the drawing myself and don’t want to use game engines. stuff like qt is too heavyweight and too much traditional UI focused. most UI frameworks also have little support built in for advanced producer/consumer or multithreading/work load balancing scenarios and expect you to roll all that stuff yourself over and over.

Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library

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Post by Pulcinella »

b20000 wrote: post #4

very 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…

Cocoa and CoreAnimation on the Mac allow you to apply arbitrary CoreImage filters to UI elements (not just images) and you can even write your own filters using the Metal shading language (though that’s basically doing a lot of the drawing yourself).

Unfortunately this doesn’t work on iOS (probably for power consumption reasons). Apple does have some filters for things like Gaussian blurs, but they are a private API.

Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library

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Post by chrisdalke »

Related, 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

Re: Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library

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Post by teawrecks »

b20000 wrote: post #4

very 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…

Immediate mode GUIs are usually pretty inefficient. I wouldn't use it as a permanent solution in a product. More like a quick way to add controls to avoid having to close the app and edit a config file, or recompile with different params.

Usually you want app GUIs with a style that matches the rest of the apps. Though mobile kinda changed that. I don't know of a performant UI framework for building non traditional desktop apps.

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