Hey folks,

libui is a crossplatform GUI lib written in C. This makes it a perfect candidate to be used in D!

What they say about libui on their site:
"Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports."

find libui on github:
https://github.com/andlabs/libui

So here are the inofficial Derelict Bindings to it: https://github.com/Extrawurst/DerelictLibui

I tested them on both windows and mac osx so far. Any linux user is welcome to test it on there aswell.

Let me know if you find any issues.

-Stephan

On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 20:52:54 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> libui is a crossplatform GUI lib written in C. This makes it a perfect candidate to be used in D!
>
> What they say about libui on their site:
> "Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports."
>
> find libui on github:
> https://github.com/andlabs/libui
>
> So here are the inofficial Derelict Bindings to it: https://github.com/Extrawurst/DerelictLibui

Thx !

>
> I tested them on both windows and mac osx so far. Any linux user is welcome to test it on there aswell.

Look at the pull requests ;)

>
> Let me know if you find any issues.
>
> -Stephan

On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 20:52:54 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> libui is a crossplatform GUI lib written in C. This makes it a perfect candidate to be used in D!
>
> What they say about libui on their site:
> "Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports."
>
> find libui on github:
> https://github.com/andlabs/libui
>
> So here are the inofficial Derelict Bindings to it: https://github.com/Extrawurst/DerelictLibui
>
> I tested them on both windows and mac osx so far. Any linux user is welcome to test it on there aswell.
>
> Let me know if you find any issues.
>
> -Stephan

I had to comment out instances of uiControlVerifyDestroy on Linux. Seems libui was updated and removed/moved that function:

Removed uiControlVerifyDestroy(); that is now part of uiFreeControl() itself.

Other than that it seems to work great on Linux. Thanks for this!

On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 00:56:00 UTC, Zekereth wrote:
> I had to comment out instances of uiControlVerifyDestroy on Linux. Seems libui was updated and removed/moved that function:
>
> Removed uiControlVerifyDestroy(); that is now part of uiFreeControl() itself.

There's no problem when you build libui from the git submodule. Actually I think it's safer to do this because the C shared lib and the bindings are in sync.

On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 20:52:54 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
> Hey folks,

>
> So here are the inofficial Derelict Bindings to it: https://github.com/Extrawurst/DerelictLibui
>
> I tested them on both windows and mac osx so far. Any linux user is welcome to test it on there aswell.
>
> Let me know if you find any issues.
>
> -Stephan

Cool. I've got this project on my github watchlist and have had a Derelict binding on my TODO list. I was waiting for it to get out of alpha status. I don't particularly like maintaining bindings to libraries I can' t be sure are going to keep a stable API. Doesn't look like it's been changing too much though.

On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 02:34:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 20:52:54 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>
>>
>> So here are the inofficial Derelict Bindings to it: https://github.com/Extrawurst/DerelictLibui
>>
>> I tested them on both windows and mac osx so far. Any linux user is welcome to test it on there aswell.
>>
>> Let me know if you find any issues.
>>
>> -Stephan
>
> Cool. I've got this project on my github watchlist and have had a Derelict binding on my TODO list. I was waiting for it to get out of alpha status. I don't particularly like maintaining bindings to libraries I can' t be sure are going to keep a stable API. Doesn't look like it's been changing too much though.

Yeah I know what you mean about stability but thats the reason why I am not using a specific release of libui but simply submodule to the exact version I am compatible with.

Also some other libs I am having on my rodadmap do use use any tags/versions ;( like nuklear wich is next on my list: https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear

Cheers,
Stephan

On 05/24/2016 04:52 PM, extrawurst wrote:
>
> So here are the inofficial Derelict Bindings to it:
> https://github.com/Extrawurst/DerelictLibui
>

Some D-oriented docs and example code would be nice.

>
> find libui on github:
> https://github.com/andlabs/libui

Hmm:

> uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports
> ...
> Windows: Windows Vista SP2 with Platform Update or newer
> Unix: GTK+ 3.4 or newer
> Mac OS X: OS X 10.7 or newer

Drives me nuts when people count "Always uses GTK on Linux" as "Native UI". It's like those programs that do everything completely Ubuntu-centric whenever possible and then advertise "Linux Support". I *really* wish GTK would just die already.

On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 16:47:30 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 05/24/2016 04:52 PM, extrawurst wrote:
>>
>> So here are the inofficial Derelict Bindings to it:
>> https://github.com/Extrawurst/DerelictLibui
>>
>
> Some D-oriented docs and example code would be nice.

There is a plain conversion of the libui example:
https://github.com/Extrawurst/DerelictLibui/blob/master/source/app.d

>
> [..snip GTK rage..]

great lib (libui). sadly, no GNU/Linux support in there yet. gtk+3 is complete crap, and it doesn't even *have* to present in system (it isn't in my case). and libui cannot fallback to gtk+2. it's sad: i was very excited by the nice C UI library (even if it is actually a wrapper).

let's hope libui author will make a working GNU/Linux version.

On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 17:17:00 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> great lib (libui). sadly, no GNU/Linux support in there yet. gtk+3 is complete crap, and it doesn't even *have* to present in system (it isn't in my case). and libui cannot fallback to gtk+2. it's sad: i was very excited by the nice C UI library (even if it is actually a wrapper).
>
> let's hope libui author will make a working GNU/Linux version.

Mmmh...it works on linux. You just have to install gtk3-devel (>3.10 is OK) from the official package manager of your distro, then run make in the libui submodule folder. It's even probably the platform where it's the easyer to setup.