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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 o

by b20000 5y ago

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.

Pulcinella 5y ago
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.
teawrecks 5y ago
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.
Flankk 5y ago
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.

by b20000 5y ago

Pulcinella 5y ago

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.

teawrecks 5y ago

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.

Flankk 5y ago

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.