| ▲ | ur-whale 5 hours ago | |
Nice, except the hard part seems to be missing: interfacing with an actual window system (X11, TUI, WIN32, whatever ...) | ||
| ▲ | exDM69 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
That's the whole point! You plug it into your project and it can be rendered on anything that can push pixels and/or triangles to the screen. Events from windowing system go in, list of triangles comes out. This is intended to be used with OpenGL, Vulkan, D3D and other graphics environment and used in cases where integrating a "real" GUI toolkit would be more trouble than it's worth. Other popular libs like Dear Imgui or Egui work the same way. | ||
| ▲ | flohofwoe 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It's a "bring your own renderer" UI framework, just like Dear ImGui or Nuklear. In some situation (e.g. when adding debugging UIs to a game) this is actually a big advantage compared to the renderer being baked into the library, since the game already has a renderer subsystem which the UI can easily hook into. | ||
| ▲ | foul 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
In demo/ someone can "steal" the renderer part which, being based on SDL, is to some extent cross-platform. | ||