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What ultra-lightweight cross-platform #C/C++ GUI do you use? Some nice ones are:
#RayGUI https://github.com/raysan5/raygui
#nuklear https://github.com/immediate-mode-ui/nuklear
#OTK https://otk.sourceforge.net/
#pdcurses https://pdcurses.org/ with BSD libform & libmenu or
#stfl https://clifford.at/stfl
#TurboVision https://tvision.sourceforge.net/
#fltk https://www.fltk.org/
#AskFedi

What ultra-lightweight cross-platform #C/C++ GUI do you use? Some nice ones are:
#RayGUI https://github.com/raysan5/raygui
#nuklear https://github.com/immediate-mode-ui/nuklear
#OTK https://otk.sourceforge.net/
#pdcurses https://pdcurses.org/ with BSD libform & libmenu or
#stfl https://clifford.at/stfl
#TurboVision https://tvision.sourceforge.net/
#fltk https://www.fltk.org/
#AskFedi

What ultra-lightweight cross-platform #C/C++ GUI do you use? Some nice ones are:
#RayGUI https://github.com/raysan5/raygui
#nuklear https://github.com/immediate-mode-ui/nuklear
#OTK https://otk.sourceforge.net/
#pdcurses https://pdcurses.org/ with BSD libform & libmenu or
#stfl https://clifford.at/stfl
#TurboVision https://tvision.sourceforge.net/
#fltk https://www.fltk.org/
#AskFedi

What ultra-lightweight cross-platform #C/C++ GUI do you use? Some nice ones are:
#RayGUI https://github.com/raysan5/raygui
#nuklear https://github.com/immediate-mode-ui/nuklear
#OTK https://otk.sourceforge.net/
#pdcurses https://pdcurses.org/ with BSD libform & libmenu or
#stfl https://clifford.at/stfl
#TurboVision https://tvision.sourceforge.net/
#fltk https://www.fltk.org/
#AskFedi

What ultra-lightweight cross-platform #C/C++ GUI do you use? Some nice ones are:
#RayGUI https://github.com/raysan5/raygui
#nuklear https://github.com/immediate-mode-ui/nuklear
#OTK https://otk.sourceforge.net/
#pdcurses https://pdcurses.org/ with BSD libform & libmenu or
#stfl https://clifford.at/stfl
#TurboVision https://tvision.sourceforge.net/
#fltk https://www.fltk.org/
#AskFedi

@thomasadam Not thrilled that a lot of the #GUI libraries are dropping #X11 support. I prefer cross platform options and dropping one backend means less portability to environments. I'm switching my own desktop to more lightweight GUI options like #FLTK and #SDL. At least those support X11 for now. #pdcurses also supports X11 via SDL.

One Open-source Project Daily

Public Domain Curses - a curses library for environments that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model, modified and extended from the 'official' version

https://github.com/Bill-Gray/PDCursesMod

#1ospd #opensource #ncurses #pdcurses

Spending some of my #christmas #vacation #geeking around with #vintagecomputing and getting reacquainted with developing software for #msdos. Last time I did that must have been in the early #90s before I discovered #Linux.

So far I've given the #djgpp C compiler a go, but it seems a little messy and keep throwing internal errors. #OpenWatcom v2 seems promising, but has a horrible way of doing interrupt calls. The #borland suites seems outdated, but does come with a lot of libraries that the others don't have. I don't believe it can generate protected mode executables though.

Im actually only looking to do a couple of simple tools, and perhaps some sort of menu/launcher that can scan recursively for configuration files. For the ladder, word around the campfire is that #pdcurses is pretty good at drawing menus and other components in text mode. I'll investigate! Would be a new experience NOT starting by writing my own library for addressing the text mode screen directly.. AGAIN.. 😜