TOtormeh·Dec 15, 2021
Why not use egui (https://github.com/emilk/egui) instead of making your own?
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egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
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egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
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Here is my favorite Rust GUI library: https://github.com/emilk/egui There are many other nice Rust GUI libraries depending on your needs: https://www.areweguiyet.com/
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 4 | 12 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 2 | 14 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 15 | 4 | 11 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesA section in the GitHub README tries to answer this question: https://github.com/emilk/egui#why-immediate-mode.
I also read an old 2005 blog post & video by Casey Muratori[1] that explains the differences in more detail.
[1] https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0001
In Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI> No Right click menus anywhere
Just wanted to add that I think that's going to be added soon, I see there's a pull request[0] to get those in. Seems like development on this is pretty active
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[0]: https://github.com/emilk/egui/pull/543
In Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUISomething interesting to think about:
- This has a framework "eframe" which lets you write generic apps which can be rendered and run either natively on on the web with WASM:
- https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/master/eframe
This has me thinking -- there's an existing standard "Web Audio Modules (WAM)" which never really went anywhere:
https://www.webaudiomodules.org/
I'm imagining some way of bridging the VST3 API's and the WAM API's, so that you could write code using "eframe" that would run either as a natively compiled VST plugin, or in a browser and using the DOM audio API's as a Web Audio Module.
native -- glium (OpenGL) -- --- VST3/LV2 API "Adapters"
/ \ /
eframe --- Generic Audio/Synth/
Read the rest
FX API's
\ / \
web ----- WASM (WebGL)----- --- Web Audio Modules API "Adapter"
Wouldn't something like that just be really friggin cool?
I'm not big-brain enough to figure out the details or if it's even viable, but damn it would be revolutionary.
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