texus/TGUI

Cross-platform modern C++ GUI

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TGUI - Texus' Graphical User Interface

TGUI is a cross-platform modern C++ GUI library. Although originally a library for SFML, it now also has backends for SDL, GLFW and raylib.

For more information, take a look at the website.

TGUI 0.10 White theme TGUI 0.10 Black theme

Status

OS support for each backend:

	Windows	Linux	macOS	Android	iOS	Emscripten
SFML_GRAPHICS	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️ ❓	N/A
SFML_OPENGL3	✔️	✔️	✔️	N/A	N/A	N/A
SDL_GPU	✔️	✔️	❓	✔️	❓	N/A
SDL_RENDERER	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️ ❓	✔️
SDL_TTF_OPENGL3	✔️	✔️	✔️	N/A	N/A	N/A
SDL_TTF_GLES2		✔️	N/A	✔️	✔️ ❓	✔️
SDL_OPENGL3	✔️	✔️	✔️	N/A	N/A	N/A
SDL_GLES2		✔️	N/A			✔️
GLFW_OPENGL3	✔️	✔️	✔️	N/A	N/A	N/A
GLFW_GLES2		✔️	N/A	N/A	N/A	✔️
RAYLIB	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	N/A	✔️

Dependencies for each backend:

	Window backend	Font backend	Rendering backend
SFML_GRAPHICS	sfml-window (>= 2.5)	sfml-graphics (>= 2.5)	sfml-graphics (>= 2.5)
SFML_OPENGL3	sfml-window (>= 2.5)	FreeType (>= 2.6)	OpenGL (>= 3.3)
SDL_GPU	SDL (>= 3.2)	SDL_ttf (>= 3.2)	SDL (>= 3.2)
SDL_RENDERER	SDL (>= 2.0.18)	SDL_ttf (>= 2.0.14)	SDL (>= 2.0.18)
SDL_TTF_OPENGL3	SDL (>= 2.0.6)	SDL_ttf (>= 2.0.14)	OpenGL (>= 3.3)
SDL_TTF_GLES2	SDL (>= 2.0.6)	SDL_ttf (>= 2.0.14)	OpenGL ES (>= 2.0)
SDL_OPENGL3	SDL (>= 2.0.6)	FreeType (>= 2.6)	OpenGL (>= 3.3)
SDL_GLES2	SDL (>= 2.0.6)	FreeType (>= 2.6)	OpenGL ES (>= 2.0)
GLFW_OPENGL3	GLFW (>= 3.2)	FreeType (>= 2.6)	OpenGL (>= 3.3)
GLFW_GLES2	GLFW (>= 3.2)	FreeType (>= 2.6)	OpenGL ES (>= 2.0)
RAYLIB	raylib (>= 4.2)	raylib (>= 4.2)	raylib (>= 4.2)

Download

You can download the source code of the current development version from the git repository: Download ZIP

Precompiled libraries for some compilers are available for each release.

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Contact

Name: Bruno Van de Velde

E-mail: vdv_b@tgui.eu

c-plus-plus

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Project health

Overall

3.7/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

4/10

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