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ethercrow commented 4 years ago

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

Repository: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

Dear ImGui is a mature and widely used open source library with corporate backing by Google, Blizzard, Ubisoft and others.

Many languages (but notably not Haskell) have bindings to Dear ImGui via its C API and machine-readable description of said API available here: https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui

simple_enterprise_application

Today if someone wants a simple GUI application with a few buttons, a textfield and a progressbar for some experiments or for some other niche purpose, the choice is basically:

Take a relatively minimal library like SDL or Gloss and suffer having to do widgets and layout yourself
Take some relatively heavyweight library with widgets and layouts like GTK, WxWidgets or FLTK and suffer having to compile them to all target platforms you need

Having Dear ImGui would provide a third (and hopefully best for some cases) option here.

I personally don't have any experience with Dear ImGui, so I would not be able to mentor this, just hope someone is able and willing.

jaspervdj commented 4 years ago

This sounds reasonable but would need a mentor with Dear ImGui and FFI/bindings experience.

ethercrow commented 4 years ago

@ekmett @ocharles @osa1 @glguy maybe you know someone interested in mentoring this?

dpwiz commented 4 years ago

There's one library listed in on ImGui wiki: https://github.com/dbousamra/imgui-haskell

It's incomplete and ripe for takeover.

wujilingfeng commented 3 years ago

You can watch this website https://github.com/haskell-game/dear-imgui.hs. I haven't try this , you can tell us how about this library if you test it.

ethercrow commented 3 years ago

@ocharles @sheaf maybe you have GSoC-able ideas for the project?

ekmett commented 3 years ago

I'm quite familiar with ImGui internals. If a body is still needed to help, let me know.

ocharles commented 3 years ago

I'd be happy to mentor, there's plenty left to do on the haskell-game library I'm helping build

jaspervdj commented 3 years ago

Awesome, sounds like there's more than enough support! All we need for now is a small description to give the students some direction for their ideas. Is anyone able to put this up in a PR?

dpwiz commented 2 years ago

BTW, https://github.com/haskell-game/dear-imgui.hs is a thing now. It is even on Hackage.

jaspervdj commented 1 year ago

Cleaning up for 2023, if you receive this notification and have ideas for this year, please submit them!

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