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webview
Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows). -
libui
Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports. -
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FTXUI
Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang -
SixtyFPS
DISCONTINUED. Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display: embedded devices and desktop applications. We support multiple programming languages, such as Rust, C++ or JavaScript. [Moved to: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint] -
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GacUI
GPU Accelerated C++ User Interface, with WYSIWYG developing tools, XML supports, built-in data binding and MVVM features. -
Turbo Vision
A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support. -
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cuda-api-wrappers
Thin C++-flavored header-only wrappers for core CUDA APIs: Runtime, Driver, NVRTC, NVTX. -
xtd
Free open-source modern C++17 / C++20 framework to create console, GUI (forms like WinForms) and unit test applications and libraries on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and Linux. -
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CTPG
Compile Time Parser Generator is a C++ single header library which takes a language description as a C++ code and turns it into a LR1 table parser with a deterministic finite automaton lexical analyzer, all in compile time. -
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ncurses
snapshots of ncurses - see https://invisible-island.net/personal/git-exports.html (no pull requests are accepted) -
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fox-toolkit
Unofficial Zenotech specific mirror of fox-toolkit; please refer to upstream site for latest version -
Brisk
Cross-platform C++20 GUI framework featuring MVVM architecture, reactive capabilities, and scalable, accelerated GPU rendering. -
NotificationManager
A thread-safe, easy-to-use, utility for sending and receiving notifications. It allows you to decouple different modules of your application.
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About
wxWidgets is a free and open source cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples. You can learn more about wxWidgets at https://www.wxwidgets.org/ and read its documentation online at https://docs.wxwidgets.org/
Platforms
This version of wxWidgets supports the following primary platforms:
- Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and 11 (32/64 bits).
- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer or 3.x).
- macOS (10.10 or newer) using Cocoa under both amd64 and ARM platforms.
Most popular C++ compilers are supported including but not limited to:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or later (up to 2022).
- g++ 4 or later (up to 12), including MinGW/MinGW-64/TDM under Windows.
- Clang (up to 14).
- Intel icc compiler.
- Oracle (ex-Sun) CC.
Licence
wxWidgets licence is a modified version of LGPL explicitly allowing not distributing the sources of an application using the library even in the case of static linking.
Building
For building the library, please see platform-specific documentation under
docs/<port> directory, e.g. here are the instructions for
[wxGTK](docs/gtk/install.md), [wxMSW](docs/msw/install.md) and
[wxOSX](docs/osx/install.md).
If you're building the sources checked out from Git, and not from a released version, please see these additional [Git-specific notes](README-GIT.md).
Further information
If you are looking for community support, you can get it from
- Mailing Lists
- Discussion Forums
- #wxwidgets IRC channel
- Stack Overflow
(tag your questions with
wxwidgets) - And you can report bugs at GitHub
Commercial support is also available.
Finally, keep in mind that wxWidgets is an open source project collaboratively developed by its users and your contributions to it are always welcome. Please check [our guidelines](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) if you'd like to do it.
Have fun!
The wxWidgets Team.