Open kosarev opened 4 years ago
May I suggest IMGUI? I've used it for a chip8 emulator I wanted to run as cross platform on Linux, windows and mac. It works quite well and has many language bindings too.
Thanks a lot, @ArjunNair! Added ImGUI to the list, and also found a similar project, Kivy. The first seems to be a popular choice for games, thus promising good performance, and the latter is itself written in Python. I'm going to see if there are more libraries of this kind, but I think at this point it's more or less clear that for this project any of these two would be a better choice comparing to solutions like Qt/wxWidgets/... and Electron/NW.js.
As to Skia, the library itself seems impressive, but the only GUI library built on top of it I found so far is https://github.com/skui-org/skui, and I would say the screenshots at http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2013/07/skui-a-gui-framework-for-sketchup/ look somewhat archaic. :-) So either there's a better alternative to Skui or we would need to write our own widgets, and I'm not sure how much time it would take given our needs...
A good overview of the topic:
UIs in Python https://livingthing.danmackinlay.name/python_gui.html
Among other options, mentions this: https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear
I use pygame directly (which is on top of SDL), not a gui itself. This list is pretty interesting!! :)
@boriel Thanks, Jose. Added PyGame and Cairo to the list. It indeed might be that no-GUI is just enough for our needs. :-)
Part of #3.
General directions to consider: