Microui+fenster=Small GUI

Very cool project. I followed some link’s to Max’s personal web site: a renaissance man!

Many decades ago when I worked on a C++ team we hired very smart but not C++ guru employees. I wrote a portable graphics library so team members could write X11 apps without learning details that domain experts really didn’t need to learn. With my company’s permission, I rewrote that code on my own time and added support for Mac, and Windows. That code became the two editions of my Portable GUIs with C++ books for McGraw-Hill.

Sorry to rant so much off topic, but mostly being retired now I have been thinking of getting back into C++ (I usually use Lisp languages and Python now). I think this very cool project will be the start of a few very fun days of playing with C++ again.

You probably want to use simd-optimized pixman[1] for rendering rectangles and glyphs. There is also luigi[2] which draws without opengl and written in C.

[1] https://github.com/freedesktop/pixman [2] https://github.com/nakst/luigi

Such boilerfree graphics is important, for example for educational purpose where you don't want to be distracted by having to explain what an "allocator" or a "handle" are.

Also, to keep the core drawing code short so that it can be fully listed on a blog post or in a print magazine.

What I liked is is a self-sufficient set of files that compile immediately without any dependency issues (even on the Mac). There should be more work like that:

- making it even easier to use

- making it simpler and simpler

- making it faster

- making the library footprint smaller

Thanks!

It uses Microui lib written by rxi. Checkout other single header only C libs written by rxi[0]. They're really elegant C in my view. [0] - https://github.com/rxi

This is great, particular the fenster side which is truly about as "If you remember Borland BGI or drawing things in QBASIC or INT 10h- you know what I mean" as I've ever seen for cross platform C.

Microui seems very cool as well but not in a "the comments section is very often longer than this code" sense. Still, I'll definitely be poking around with this a bit more for the novelty.

love it :) next step, some tiny scripting language bindings? s7 would fit in well e.g. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html

Cool project! Graphics programming is _hard_ and anything to make it easier is welcome.

Maybe a dumb question, but why not Dear ImGui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui). "It's way too big and complex" is a completely reasonable answer, but I found it fantastic for debug menus, and there are a few applications that have used it as their _main_ GUI (Ship of Harkinian as an example).

(Edit for fixing the name of the project)

Here's something I struggle with: where do I install the C libraries too and then how do you include them? I always want to try these really cool libs, but then I remember that although I know C well enough to try them, I've not solved the ecosystem and dependency management side of developing in C.

Any suggested reading?

This sounds awesome. I can't wait to use it with Lua, like lua-fenster.

Or, can I already?

This is great for some things, is there something small like fenster but written in C?

Or is it just the header there? I see there is both a Cpp and a Go file there too, so I am a bit unsure which does what.

I like it! Bravo!

I wonder if they could add Wayland…