README.md

Welcome to GuiLite

The smallest header-only GUI library (4 KLOC) for all platforms.

• 中文

Lightweight

• ✂️Small: 4,000+ lines of C++ code, zero dependency, header-only(GuiLite.h)

• ⚡Fast: High Rendering performance, even work on MCU

• 👫🏻Compatible: Work smoothly with 3rd party frameworks(Qt/MFC/Winform/Cocoa/Web)

• ⚙️️Hardware Minimum Requirements:

  Processor	Disk/ROM space	Memory
  24 MHZ	29 KB	9 KB

Cross platform

• Supported OSes: iOS/macOS/WathOS, Android, Linux, Windows, RTOS... or MCU without OS
• Supported languages: C/C++, Swift, Java, Javascript, C#, Golang...
• Supported 3rd party libraries: Qt, MFC, Winforms, CoCoa...

Useful features

• 🔣Multi-language, supports UTF-8;📀Playback Video
• 🔨Toolkit for building font/image resources
• 📐Layout GUI WYSIWYG
• ☁️Cloud + IoT Solution
• 📊Code Telemetry and Analysis in real time
• 📦Supports 3D and Web
• 🐋Run in docker with a single command: sudo docker run -it --privileged -v /dev:/dev-share idea4good/gui-lite:latest bash /run.sh

Easy to learn and support

Even a C beginner could master GuiLite quickly. The source code only uses basic C++ features (class, virtual function). We chose C++ as it could make the code size significantly smaller and easier to read.

• 📚Documentation
  • How to use GuiLite?
  • Design specification
  • How to Layout widgets?
  • How to build unicode font/bitmap resource?
  • How to switch theme?
  • How to dispatch messages?
  • UML chart of GuiLite core
• 📈Learning steps
  1. Build GuiLite library
  2. Build/Debug HelloXXX demos
  3. Read/Modify HelloXXX/UIcode/UIcode.cpp code
  4. Read/Modify widgets code
  5. Read/Modify core code
  6. Build your GUI framework
• 📞Reach out us if you have any questions you are welcomed to our developer family.
• 🀄️Mirror repository in China

Demo wall

• Zero dependency, 100% build pass & runnable
• Click the demo you like, and run it on your hardware

3D on STM32	Wave on STM32	Particle on STM32	Star on STM32
3D wave on STM32	Keyboard on STM32	Mario on STM32	3D circle on STM32
3D donut on STM32	Timer	Molecule move	Pendulum effect
3D on Apple Watch	Wave on Apple Watch	Particle on iPhone	HostMonitor on iPhone

Layout GUI	Run Windows on Linux
Multi-language	Code Telemetry & Analysis in real time
Scroll widget	Video: GuiLite + FFmpeg
Transparent dialog	Swipe view

3D Nets on Windows/Linux	How to use widgets	Multi-language
3D on Web	3D on Web	Tutorial on Web
HostMonitor on Windows	HostMonitor on IoT-Cloud	HostMonitor on Android
HostMonitor on Windows Mixed Reality	HostMonitor on Mac	HostMonitor on Linux

Most of the demos have about 100 lines of UI code, more details here.

📞Community Channel

Thanks for the help from the community, you all make GuiLite better! And welcome to any new friend to join us.

• @Twitter
• QQ group code:

超级群：527251257

超级群：841031761

免费群：717471210

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