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Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.

71 mentions on Hacker News by 51 people: 6 stories, 65 comments · first 2016-05-20 · latest 2026-03-01

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  1. A project you might be interested in is libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ). I can't comment on it because I haven't used it and it's still quite young but it looks promising, it's on my radar to learn soon. Native widgets and…
  2. …really wouldn't be that big a deal. At the moment I'm somewhat hopefully the libui project ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ) will be successful though. It's learned the lessons from previous attempts.
    comment by flukus · 2017-01-18 · in RethinkDB Postmortem
  3. libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ) seems promising.
    comment by macco · 2016-10-06 · in Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond
  4. Qt is not bad. I got interested in libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ), but it stalled a bit, after a couple of months of very promising activity.
  5. …their own weird languages and ui designer IDEs. At the moment I'm crossing my fingers that libui https://github.com/andlabs/libui/ won't mess up. But for now it's quite incomplete.
    comment by daurnimator · 2016-09-26 · in LXQt 0.11 Released
  6. …libui[1], it is exactlly the same philosophy [0] http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/ [1] https://github.com/andlabs/libui
  7. "The best" is subjective. I have played around with libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ), which runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. A nice thing about it is that it is written in C, and therefore has bindings with several programming…
  8. Depends on how complex your UI needs to be, but have you considered libui? https://github.com/andlabs/libui
  9. Have you thought about integrating with https://github.com/andlabs/libui edit: What about maybe as an optional backend? That way one could develop on a desktop easier.
  10. …it's in alpha stage, true, but so what - wait until it's stable, and then start building? [0]: https://github.com/andlabs/libui
  11. …libui [1], developers, you have no excuses! [0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/libui-node [1]: https://github.com/andlabs/libui
  12. …classes. libui has C api, but it would be easy to write a nice c++11 wrapper around it. [1] https://github.com/andlabs/libui
    comment by gulpahum · 2016-06-16 · in Qt 5.7 released
  13. …its python 3 bindings are still being built. Personally, I'm keeping my eye open on libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui/ ) as it is already possible to do some basic things with it. However, it is pretty much in alpha state and I'm…
    comment by jventura · 2016-06-08 · in Announcing the Qt Automotive Suite
  14. …said that scrolling a certain web page triggered no less than something like 67 animations. [1] https://github.com/andlabs/libui
  15. https://github.com/andlabs/libui/issues/24
    comment by jventura · 2016-05-20 · in Libui: GUI library in C