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Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

209 mentions on Hacker News by 162 people: 29 stories, 180 comments · first 2014-08-11 · latest 2026-09-03

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    Imgui
    story by tosh · 2020-05-03 · 0 comments
  2. …might look at imgui, specifically cimgui which is just the autogenerated c-api wrapper for imgui. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui
    comment by chunkles · 2020-02-02 · in Ask HN: Any minimalist cross-platform low-level C graphic library?
  3. …ImTui, it's 99% the Dear ImGui library [0] - ImTui is basically just a textual output wrapper. [0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by ggerganov · 2019-12-16 · in Show HN: HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Terminal
  4. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by billsix · 2019-12-11 · in A Better Qt Because of Open Source and KDE
  5. …it was interesting to share + probably with a bit of polishing it might even become useful :) [0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by ggerganov · 2019-12-08 · in Show HN: ImTui – Immediate Mode Text-Based User Interface Library for C++
  6. …on the imgui repo, seems like it's the bottom line (and expresses the same ideas mentioned here): https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1228#issuecomment-31...
    comment by dakom · 2019-12-03 · in Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust
  7. …prone with much less state management / hierarchy management to do than the React model. [^1]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by adev_ · 2019-12-02 · in Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust
  8. Do you mean Dear ImGui? Isn't it a C++ GUI? https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by dgellow · 2019-08-23 · in Rust GUI ecosystem overview
  9. …for one of the colormap control panels? Love using this for whipping together quick interfaces. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by dr_coffee · 2019-08-21 · in Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
  10. …- https://github.com/zserge/webview * Dear ImGui (bindings exist for many languages!) - https://github.com/ocornut/imgui * Flutter (language: Dart) - https://flutter.dev/ None have really stood out yet to replace Electron, but the future…
    comment by lioeters · 2019-07-31 · in Electron 6.0
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    Dear ImGui: Release v1.70
    story by lasagnaphil · 2019-05-06 · 0 comments
  12. …vertex buffers that you can render anytime in your 3D-pipeline enabled application." [0] [0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by bdowling · 2019-04-29 · in Could ImGUI Be the Future of GUIs?
  13. …since I've done any non-browser UI work. Browsing the Dear ImGui project, it looks pretty cool. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki From the hip, I'd say one big difference is the API for modals is blocking (waiting for user input), vs…
    comment by specialist · 2019-04-25 · in Immediate Mode GUI
  14. …https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/870320/51073482-ba... See https://github.com/ocornut/imgui#Gallery for more
    comment by tokyodude · 2019-04-25 · in Immediate Mode GUI
  15. …detail. Unity's ImGUI is multi-pass. One of the most popular ImGUIs (Dear ImGUI) is single pass https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by tokyodude · 2019-04-25 · in Immediate Mode GUI
  16. …it might not know every term. Here's are galleries of some from one of the more popular libraries https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/2265 https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1902 https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1607…
    comment by tokyodude · 2019-04-25 · in Immediate Mode GUI
  17. …want!) You should look at how custom components are made in IMGUI (for example, plotting variables: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/plot_var_example )
    comment by lasagnaphil · 2019-04-25 · in Immediate Mode GUI
  18. Here's an browser demo for dear imgui ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui ) library: https://pbrfrat.com/post/imgui_in_browser.html For modal demo check "Popups & modal windows" -> "Modals" example. This is how it looks in C++ code:…
    comment by mmozeiko · 2019-04-25 · in Immediate Mode GUI
  19. …but decided not to go with it since the examples are all over a hundred lines long, for example: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/examples/exampl... It seems like there is a lot of setup / configuration code necessary to wire…
    comment by zach43 · 2019-04-21 · in Ask HN: Where are the GUI libraries that aren't bloated?
  20. Try an immediate mode GUI. e.g. Dear Imgui[0]. [0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui Here's the code to draw a slider whose value is stored in a float: float f = 0.5f; ImGui::SliderFloat("my float", &f, 0.0f, 1.0f); edit: A lot of the…
    comment by kayamon · 2019-04-21 · in Ask HN: Where are the GUI libraries that aren't bloated?
  21. …a huge fan of these stateful GUI libraries. I've really been enjoying Dear Imgui as an alternative: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui There are Python bindings too: https://github.com/swistakm/pyimgui
    comment by Glench · 2019-03-30 · in Python GUI Programming
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    Dear ImGui: Bloat-Free Immediate Mode Graphical User Interface for C++
    story by ingve · 2019-02-04 · 0 comments
  23. …least for "code driven UIs" (as opposed to artist-driven UIs): https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0001 https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by flohofwoe · 2019-02-03 · in React as a UI Runtime
  24. I ended up choosing Dear ImGui recently https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by srikz · 2019-01-18 · in A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop
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    Dear ImGui Docking branch available for testing
    story by ingve · 2019-01-14 · 0 comments
  26. …change is that I started adding debugging UIs to the emulators, using the excellent Dear ImGui ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui ). The UI is in a separate version of the emulator, launched with the little "UI" button in the top right…
    comment by flohofwoe · 2018-11-19 · in Tiny Emus: 8-Bit emulators
  27. …graphical applications though, I recommend immediate mode frameworks https://youtu.be/Z1qyvQsjK5Y https://github.com/ocornut/imgui https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear
    comment by billsix · 2018-10-26 · in Qt Design Studio 1.0
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    ImGui: Bloat-Free Immediate Mode GUI for C++ with Minimal Dependencies
    story by setra · 2018-10-02 · 1 comment
  29. …"feel it". Then you can filter 2D images if you want. I recommend the graphic interface Dear Imgui: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1902 Way faster development time than any other (states)interface…
    comment by hevi_jos · 2018-10-02 · in Ask HN: What are good projects to understand CUDA and GPU Programming?
  30. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by malkia · 2018-08-03 · in Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
  31. …It is, however, very much like the fairly recent native immediate-mode GUIs that have come out ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui , https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/conrod , etc). The core feature of React is that your UI is a pure…
    comment by jhomedall · 2018-07-09 · in A div that looks different in every browser
  32. For imgui ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/ ) and uklear ( https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear ), docs are basically unnecessary. You just have to look at the examples/demos and copy pasta. Immediate mode GUIs are great.
    comment by billsix · 2018-05-20 · in Libui: a portable GUI library for C
  33. …financed - are in a much better situation than projects done on a spare time budget. --- [1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by valera_rozuvan · 2018-05-20 · in Libui: a portable GUI library for C
  34. …https://github.com/zulip/zulip/ https://github.com/TechnologyClassroom/SetupNotes/tree/maste... https://github.com/ocornut/imgui https://github.com/alseambusher/crontab-ui https://github.com/fyhertz/libstreaming…
    comment by arca_vorago · 2018-04-30 · in Ask HN: What are some amazing open source projects that you have found recently?
  35. …for all types of UIs, but it makes creating UIs fun again and the productivity is astonishing. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui Checkout the screenshot threads https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1607 Especially desktop apps like this…
    comment by flohofwoe · 2018-04-18 · in GUI development is broken
  36. This is a good one too: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by modeless · 2018-02-08 · in LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS
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    ImGui: Bloat-Free Immediate Mode Graphical UI for C++ with Minimal Dependencies
    story by based2 · 2018-01-20 · 1 comment
  38. > suckless UI system What about IMGUI? https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by speps · 2017-10-25 · in Build your own Terminal using Qt
  39. …I need, as I write realtime scientific visualization code). What I want is something like imgui ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui ), but for 3D. Simple, powerful, and bloat-free. However, I can't find anything like this.
    comment by atemerev · 2017-08-26 · in Beginners Guide to Vulkan
  40. …widgets which have much of the logic encapsulated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qyvQsjK5Y https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by jstimpfle · 2017-08-20 · in McCLIM: A GUI Toolkit for Common Lisp
  41. …make your gui mini-framework opensource. Though I would think it would be similar to something like https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by dyu- · 2017-07-16 · in Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more
  42. …try finding a graphics library such as opengl, and build a UI in the spirit of something like: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear
    comment by 4D1 · 2017-04-11 · in Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
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    Dear imgui
    story by gpvos · 2017-03-31 · 0 comments
  44. …once, avoiding unnecessary shader switches etc. IIRC this is how Conrod (Rust's imgui library) and https://github.com/ocornut/imgui work, although with varying levels of caching. One point to make about retained mode GUIs is I remember…
    comment by trishume · 2017-03-24 · in VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
  45. Dear Imgui: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui Best thing since sliced bread if I may say so :)
    comment by flohofwoe · 2017-03-08 · in The Rusty Web: Targeting the Web with Rust
  46. "Dear ImGui" ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui ) is an absolute delight to use. Can't recommend it highly enough. It's not suitable for every project, but when it does fit then I can't think of anything else I'd rather use.
    comment by vilya · 2016-10-06 · in Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond
  47. …to write wrappers for other languages. Check out what people have been doing with Dear Imgui: - https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/123 - https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/539
    comment by flohofwoe · 2016-07-23 · in Using ImGui with modern C++ and STL for creating game dev tools – Part 2
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    Bloat-free Immediate Mode GUI for C++ with minimal dependencies
    story by fla · 2016-07-07 · 0 comments
  49. …also quite popular, for example Qt, wxWidgets, GTK. - [1] https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear - [2] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
    comment by dmytroi · 2016-05-05 · in OS X app in plain C
  50. …and easily running at 60fps with very few drawcalls. And people are doing amazing things with it: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/123 https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/539
    comment by flohofwoe · 2016-04-27 · in Experimental Qt and QML in the browser