GuiLite - The smallest GUI library

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• Features
• Start with Demo
• Documents
• How to Learn?
• Videos
• 🙏Thanks & ❤️Charity

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Introduction

GuiLite is the smallest GUI library with 5000 lines of C++ code, could run on all platforms(e.g, iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, macOS, Docker and MCU without OS), and work with many languages(e.g. Swift, Java, Javascript, C#, Golang).

• ✂️Small: Only 5 KLOC, independent of any OS and any third party library - Easy to build adn run
• ⚡Fast: Render GUI within one invoking - Make GUI runs quickly and smoothly
• 🧷Embeddable: Could runs inside Qt/MFC/Winform/Cocoa/Web - Keep Qt/MFC code reusable, and speed it up by local GuiLite-optimization

🔥New feature：Upgrade GuiLite Samples to 3D level

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• Run GuiLite Samples(HelloParticle, HelloWave) on Web and 3D scenario
• Source code

Features

Cross platform

ARM Linux	STM32 Without OS

Windows Mixed Reality	Android

macOS	iOS

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GuiLite previewer(WYSIWYG extension for GuiLite)

GuiLite Previewer is a Visual Studio Code extension, could extract GUI information from C++ code and preview GUI at preview page(What you see is what you get)

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Gorgeous UI

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Multi-language:

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IoT Solution & Code Telemetry

• Report build activities to cloud:
  
• Sync running data to cloud:
  

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Support Docker

We build GuiLite demo as docker image, you can update/deploy/run the latest GuiLite demo on your device with single command below:

• sudo docker run -it --privileged -v /dev:/dev-share idea4good/gui-lite:latest bash /run.sh

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Start with Demo

GuiLite is only a framework, could not create UI by itself. In order to show how to build UI App with it, We provide some samples for you.

• Sample code here.
• Sample introduction:

Sample name	Platform	Description	Build guidance	Diffculty level
HelloParticle	Windows, Linux, STM32F103, STM32F429	Show how to develop particle effect	Build	★
HelloStar	Windows, Linux, STM32F103, STM32F429	Show how to develop star field effect	Build	★
Hello3D	Windows, Linux, STM32F103	Show how to build physics App with GuiLite	Build	★★
HelloGuiLite	Windows, Linux	Show how to Initialize UI, load resource, layout UI	Build	★★
HelloWidgets	Windows, Linux	Show how to use GuiLite widgets	Build	★★
HelloMario	Windows, Linux, STM32F103, STM32F429	Show how to develop multi-layer UI system	Build	★★
HelloNavigation	Windows, Linux, STM32F103, STM32F429	Show how to navigate/click widgets by hard button in non-touch GUI scenario	Build	★★
HelloFont	Windows, Linux	Show how to use multi-language feature(UTF-8)	Build	★★
HelloAnimation	Windows, Linux	Show how to make animation	Build	★★
HelloSlide	Windows, Linux	Show how to use sliding pages	Build	★★★
HelloWave	Windows, Linux, STM32F103, STM32F429	Show how to use wave widget	Build	★★★
HostMonitor	iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, Linux	Show how to build complex UI for all platforms	Build	★★★★

Documents

GuiLite is the smallest and simplest GUI library.

1. Just 5,000 line C++ code
2. Only use basic C++ feature(class, virtual function), no complex syntax
3. All rendering base on draw_pixel, no algorithm
4. Full documents and small live demos for reference
   • Design specification
   • How to build?
   • How to Layout widgets?
   • How to build unicode font/bitmap resource?
   • How to switch theme?
   • How to dispatch messages?
   • UML chart of GuiLite core
   • How GuiLite multi-layers work?
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     • Full video
     • Tutorial Source code

How to learn?

1. Build/Run GuiLite library
2. Build/Run HelloXXX demos
3. Read/Modify HelloXXX/UIcode/UIcode.cpp code
4. Read/Modify gui code
5. Read/Modify core code
6. Build your UI framework

Videos

• GuiLite introduction
• 3D GuiLite
• GuiLite + STM32

Mirror repository

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Thanks and Charity

• Thanks for the help from QQ group, you guys make GuiLite better! And welcome new friend to join us.
  
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