Btw cross platform Go GUI by the same author is based on that:
Libui: GUI library in C
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Re: Libui: GUI library in C
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Had some troubles compiling on OSX Mavericks, but now that I've just tested it, it sure looks 100% native to me and perfectly integrates with the platform (file dialogs, osx font dialog, etc.) and much much better and lighter than Qt and other cross-platform tools I've been using so far. I'm definitely going to try to implement a python wrapper around this as it seems usable enough as it is now.. :)
What trouble?
Re: Libui: GUI library in C
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
If your platform is X11, Wayland, or Mir :)
And then you go to the Features page, with a box on the right clearly listing "GNU/Linux and Unix / Windows / Mac OS X" as supported plartforms :) With "Native look and feel" in the box just below. I disagree with the current GTK direction, but it's not my project and I accept that. If the focus of the project has changed, update the website(s) and documentation. Also the HTTPS stuff pointed out by distances.
Agreed. It seems wildly out of date. I'll track down who has access to the site and see if we can update it during the hackfest in a couple weeks.
Re: Libui: GUI library in C
#134I guess Sublime Text uses something like this (custom made of course) and everyone loves Sublime (at least regarding speed and cross platform good looks).
Re: Libui: GUI library in C
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
And then you go to the Features page, with a box on the right clearly listing "GNU/Linux and Unix / Windows / Mac OS X" as supported plartforms :) With "Native look and feel" in the box just below. I disagree with the current GTK direction, but it's not my project and I accept that. If the focus of the project has changed, update the website(s) and documentation. Also the HTTPS stuff pointed out by distances.
Agreed. It seems wildly out of date. I'll track down who has access to the site and see if we can update it during the hackfest in a couple weeks.
Benjamin Otte recently added uxtheme.dll support to the CSS engine and I've already seen a few screenshots of the win32 theme using it to okay effect. I wrote a patch to add OS X cursor support to GDK last year and it was taken, not to mention work by Christian Hergert and others to improve the relatively new GDK/Quartz backend. So I'm pretty sure Windows and OS X are supported platforms :)
Re: Libui: GUI library in C
#136This is a very good approach for the current times! As far as I understand from the source code, libui is a thin C wrapper that makes calls to each platform native ui framework. For instance, to create a window on OSX it calls the corresponding Cocoa function, for Linux the corresponding GTK function, etc. So, unlike Qt and GTK which are heavy cross-platform libraries because they can "draw" their own widgets themsel…
It's not a new approach, though. SWT (for the JVM) and wxWidgets (C++, with bindings for more than a dozen languages) have been following it for years.
I guess it's the proverbial "Simpsons did it" in which case, I don't care and I like to see people tinkering with ideas rather than just settling.
Re: Libui: GUI library in C
#137This is a very good approach for the current times! As far as I understand from the source code, libui is a thin C wrapper that makes calls to each platform native ui framework. For instance, to create a window on OSX it calls the corresponding Cocoa function, for Linux the corresponding GTK function, etc. So, unlike Qt and GTK which are heavy cross-platform libraries because they can "draw" their own widgets themsel…
It's not a new approach, though. SWT (for the JVM) and wxWidgets (C++, with bindings for more than a dozen languages) have been following it for years.
Actually SWT was one of the most pleasant experiences I've had coding GUI stuff. I always found it such a shame that it's only possible to use within the Java ecosystem. I really wanted an interface to the SWT binary libraries from other languages, I looked into it but it seemed intractable to port. If this library takes a similar approach it's probably doing something right.
Re: Libui: GUI library in C
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
> [...] GTK is perfectly fine for Linux. This is great news, so now it is the best time to make thin wrappers around these stable things so that we can all go make useful software.. Hoping not to start any kind of framework quarrel, but my understanding was that quite many applications (such as Wireshark, Subsurface, and OpenShot) are moving from GTK to Qt very much due to Qt being more stable. Or is the main reason…
Qt is better supported and easier to use compared to GTK. It's also probably the best cross-platform toolkit one can get right now. Was surprised to hear that even Linus got sick of dealing with GTK and ported Subsurface to Qt, but that's how it is.
I'm pretty sure the QT migration occurred after Linus stopped maintaining the project and handed the reins to Dirk Hohndel.
Re: Libui: GUI library in C
#139Can it handle printing too? That's a cross platform PITA too.
Re: Libui: GUI library in C
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. It seems wildly out of date. I'll track down who has access to the site and see if we can update it during the hackfest in a couple weeks.
Benjamin Otte recently added uxtheme.dll support to the CSS engine and I've already seen a few screenshots of the win32 theme using it to okay effect. I wrote a patch to add OS X cursor support to GDK last year and it was taken, not to mention work by Christian Hergert and others to improve the relatively new GDK/Quartz backend. So I'm pretty sure Windows and OS X are supported platforms :)
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