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[AlexRamallo]

I've been looking for a good cross platform UI toolkit (just simple widgets with inputs) for tooling and stuff, but there doesn't appear to be anything lightweight and reliable.

So I was thinking of just hacking together something simple with SDL, Cairo and Pango. I noticed though that Pango depends on glib from GTK+, which makes me wonder if that'll cause problems on Windows. Namely, I'm worried about the size of dependencies I'll have to bundle. I once saw a taskbar widget made with Electron, at almost 200mb. That has had me paranoid ever since.


But whatever, before I get into building a bunch of widgets, does anyone know of an existing solution? I'd prefer something with the technologies I've listed because it'd be easier to integrate with my engine. I'm also interested in making it skinnable, so no wxWidgets or anything that abstracts the native OS widgets.

[JWki]

Have you looked at dear imgui? It's lightweight, designed for game tooling especially embedded tools. My preferred solution for everything that needs ui at least for debugging and tools.

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

[AlexRamallo]

Yeah, but it's hard to re-skin that one. I'd like to have something more concrete and extensible, and preferably not an imgui style framework. Imguis are great for a game loop, but a bit inappropriate when you don't need one.

[JWki]

Yeah, but it's hard to re-skin that one. I'd like to have something more concrete and extensible, and preferably not an imgui style framework. Imguis are great for a game loop, but a bit inappropriate when you don't need one.

Agreed on the skinning issue. I found it to be pretty easy to extend though and you can set it up to work with a more traditional ui event loop.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

CeGUI?

http://cegui.org.uk/

If you do end up trying it let me know. I've had a blind spot on that framework.