Warning: kiUi became the ui component inside the mud library

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kiUi

kiUi is a lightweight auto-layout Ui library, abstracted out from any rendering or input code.

kiui supports Emscripten : try the live demo here.

It is designed according to the following design goals :

Separation of Ui appearance and logic
Automatic layout as the norm, not the exception (as in HTML)
Easy styling, separated from logic (as in CSS)
Brevity and simplicity above everything else, especially in C++ code
Good for both an editor Ui and a game Ui

Auto-Layout

Every single element in kiUi auto-layouts ! You have nothing to do. No position to set, no size to determine.

Code the logic : Just add your widgets and define the logic as you please.
Code the appearance : Just set your fonts, font-size, images, and kiUi will do the rest.

The style can be defined and tweaked separately by an artist. Style are defined in C++ as of now, but Style Sheets are planned to come soon.

Skins

kiUi was conceived so that each element can be styled in a way very similar to CSS, through Style Sheets You can switch between Styles Sheets on the fly

Usage

RootSheet& root = uiwindow.rootSheet();
Window& window = root.emplace<Window>("Example window");

Expandbox& expandbox = window.emplace<Expandbox>("Collapsable box");

Label& label = expandbox.emplace<Label>("kiUi says hello.");
Button& button = expand.emplace<Button>("Push me");

For a more in-depth usage example look at the full demo implementation : Example

Nano

kiUi comes with a light renderer / input system based on NanoVG and GLFW to quickly bootstrap a prototype application in a few lines of code.

GlWindow glwindow(1200, 800, "mk UiEditApp");
glwindow.initContext();

UiWindow& uiwindow = glwindow.uiWindow();
bool pursue = true;
while(pursue)
    pursue = glwindow.renderFrame();

Widgets

Dockspace
Tabber
Table
Window (resize, drag, dock)
Radiobutton
Dropdown

Editor

kiUi will come with a simple editor which also uses kiUi for its interface

License

The library is licensed under zlib license

Links

Uses nanovg for vector rendering Uses glfw for OpenGL context management

galek/kiui