On Wednesday, 19 February 2025 at 15:21:19 UTC, Danny Arends
wrote:
Hey all,
I am looking to integrate a GUI library like IMgui / Nuklear
into my app that uses Vulkan within SDL2 for rendering so that
it can run on Windows, Linux, and Android
(https://github.com/DannyArends/CalderaD).
I've tried several different bindings to IMgui, however, none
seem to work and seem abandoned to me (the most recent updated
one 'bindbc-imgui' was updated 3 years ago).
For Nuklear, the most up2date package (bindbc-nuklear) seems to
build, but doesn't provide a Vulkan back-end example so I'm
kind of stuck with how I'm supposed to integrate it (I might
make the effort to translate the C-code example provided in the
https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear repository to D)
But this got me wondering, what is the state of the art GUI
library in D, when I am using modern OpenGL or Vulkan ? Does
anyone have any tips or tricks on how to achieve a basic GUI ?
(without writing yet another GUI library binding from scratch)
Nuklear works with D (ImportC) out of the box, you don't need any
binding, that's what i'm using in my game
nk.c
```
// add other configs you need
#define NK_INCLUDE_VERTEX_BUFFER_OUTPUT
#define NK_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "nuklear.h"
```
app.d
```D
import nk;
```
Then the examples are 1:1, C/D is the same
Stick to simplicity, and get rewarded for it
