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Dear imgui not have any love?
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It's nice, but I think it's not the best choice if you actually want to make a user-oriented desktop application. It's very useful for developers (debugging, creating game editors, etc)
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Yes, I know that it's proprietary unless you pay, but you can freely use the binaries in your applications (even in commercial ones). And no one stops you from making a program with _good_ UX since it's HTML + extensions/CSS2.1 + some CSS3 + custom extensions/custom TiScript (JavaScript-like language)
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Do you really? [https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/blob/master/license.htm](https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/blob/master/license.htm) At least two of the programs given as the examples on their GH page are terrible in terms of UX.
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on windows. I have tested the following: wNim, which is an alive one among what I have tested and is updated now and then. it supplies many common controls. it can produce tiny size application, but only for windows. I like its autolayout DSL very much, which lets us do the layout in a very brief and effective way. Take only layout into account, wNim's DSL is more effective than XML. fidget. I can't compile the new updated version both wNim and Iup stand on the shoulder of mature cross-platform guide lib. As a result, they should have rich controls and functions. But the soon-abandoned binding is too old and raw, and I have to write application after the C/C++ way, as a result I think the code is verbose and even longer than C/C++ code. what's worse, it is too hard to compile a wxnim, which uses wxWidgets, code on windows. On the contrary, it is easy to compile wxWidgets and its demo on windows. As for LCUI and govcl I mentioned above, I try to call them in python via ctypes since both supply C headers. I can draw the frame and controls on it, but I am stuck during binding the event to controls. I have not try the nim side though. but I think I will be stopped by event binding too.
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Wow, Sciter seems to be really amazing! I must try it
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Thanks for that hints. I have recently listed available Nim GUI libs, I will add these 3 to the list when we can provide working bindings and some examples. Do you know which on my list are currently working? The list is just above Chapter 1 headline in [http://ssalewski.de/gtkprogramming.html#_chapter_1](http://ssalewski.de/gtkprogramming.html#_chapter_1).
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thank you for pointing out sciter. although it looks nice, I found the document or tutorial is lack, at least for python/nim language.
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My suggestion is [Sciter](http://sciter.com) * It's [free](https://sciter.com/prices/) * [Lightweight](https://terrainformatica.com/2018/12/23/sciternode-versus-electron/) * [Cross-platform (win, linux, osx, arm)](https://quark.sciter.com/) * Single dll 5-7mb (depending on renderer) * [Embeddable](https://sciter.com/sciter-lite-is-published/) * Doesn't require you to use it's script language, script stuff can be done through the program's lang (c, go, rust, python, nim...) [if you like react, you can write components in the same way](https://sciter.com/docs/content/reactor/lifecycle.htm) Sadly it's bindings for Nim are outdated: [https://github.com/sciter-sdk/nsciter](https://github.com/sciter-sdk/nsciter) C/C++ Lib: [https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk](https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk)
[offtopic]2 cross-platform GUI library
1\. [https://github.com/lc-soft/LCUI](https://github.com/lc-soft/LCUI) LCUI is a C language UI lib which uses XML and CSS to describe interface structure and style. As a result, the UI can be more beautiful. 2\. [https://github.com/ying32/govcl](https://github.com/ying32/govcl)/ a Golang GUI which is built upon Lazarus' liblcl. So it maybe more mature
