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One unusual alternative you may not have thought about is using Godot Game Engine. Before dismissing it, consider this: Godot engine is shockingly small for wha
by socialdemocrat 4y ago
One unusual alternative you may not have thought about is using Godot Game Engine. Before dismissing it, consider this: Godot engine is shockingly small for what it does. The download is about 30-40 MB. The GUI designer tool is second to none, and you can make highly interactive advanced GUIs using a language that looks very much like Python called GDScript. It is very quick to learn.
It does make GUI which are native to the platform but you get a small native binary which renders OpenGL.
Is Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot the Future? https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-advance-gui-applications-b1cfb941df3b https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-ad...
- d--b 4y agoI really wanted to try this out, but the learning curve for godot was a little steep, cause there is all the game related stuff I don’t really care about. Any tutorial to create a simple app with a few controls?
- withinboredom 4y agoWouldn’t that seriously hurt laptop battery life to use a discrete gpu to render the UI? Or is there someway to tell the OS that a non-discrete gpu is fine?
- capableweb 4y agoNo, GPUs are more power efficient than CPUs to render graphics, so it'll save battery.
- withinboredom 4y agoSo, my laptop is dumb for turning off the discrete GPU when I unplug it?
- Chai-T-Rex 4y agoThey didn't say discrete GPU, they said GPUs, which includes integrated GPUs.
- withinboredom 4y agoA game engine will tell the OS to start up the discrete GPU if it is available. This is why I asked the original question. Is there some way to turn that off?
- OvermindDL1 4y agoWhen initializing a GPU context you can specify whether you want the most efficient device, the fastest device, etc, for a GUI app then you would want to pick the most efficient, which is a single flag to pass in, or supply options and let the user pick which one they want.
- ghishadow 4y agoHow is accessibility? best thing about Electron is we get accessibility of Browser