The smallest header-only GUI library(5 KLOC) for all platforms

Welcome to GuiLite

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Lightweight

• ✂️Small: Just under 5,000 lines of C++ and header-only: GuiLite.h
• ⚡Fast: Render a GUI within one invocation, independent of any OS or 3rd party library
• 💉Embeddable: Runs inside Qt/MFC/Winform/Cocoa/Web - Keep legacy Qt/MFC code reusable
• ⚙️️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
• 🔨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/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
• 📞Reach out us if you have any questions you are welcomed to our developer family.
• 🀄️Mirror repository in China

Demo wall

Click the image you like, and run it on your hardware

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.

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