a utility package for a small GUI library for debugging like ImGUI

[hajimehoshi]

Operating System

• [ ] Windows
• [ ] macOS
• [ ] Linux
• [ ] FreeBSD
• [ ] OpenBSD
• [ ] Android
• [ ] iOS
• [ ] Nintendo Switch
• [ ] PlayStation 5
• [ ] Xbox
• [ ] Web Browsers

What feature would you like to be added?

Ebitengine lacks a simple GUI library just for debugging, so why not :-) ?

There is an ImGUI binding for Ebitengine https://github.com/gabstv/ebiten-imgui, but unfortunately this uses Cgo and then this doesn't work on browsers.

I've not decided to create an original API or convert ImGUI to pure Go yet.

Why is this needed?

This was inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1exl1bi/my_experience_with_ebitengine_and_raylibgo_gmtk/

Also there were some requests for this in the Discord server.

A GUI library should be nice even for the current examples to manipulate parameters in a more intuitive way.

[hajimehoshi]

We should go with ImGUI instead of inventing our own thing so that we can save time.

• Using Wasm + Wazero seems the way to go so far (e.g. https://github.com/wasilibs/go-jq)
  • In this case, a Wasm file should be generated by Docker.
• I'm fine to put the project under github.com/ebitengine

We'd be happy if somenoe could help us!

[hajimehoshi]

We can use the C version of ImGUI (https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui) with the API defintion in JSON (https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui/blob/master/generator/output/definitions.json)

[hajimehoshi]

https://github.com/ebitengine/microui