alui

UI library for Allegro inspired by Agui.

This is a WIP library that I'll be poking at on and off for the foreseeable future.

Notable differences from agui

• Modern C++; smart pointers; reduced number of raw pointers; better use of RAII; hopefully better to work with
• alui is allegro-specific (hence the al in the name, the prefix commonly used in allegro functions), while Agui is renderer-agnostic. No other renderers will be supported by this library, and this is an intentional decision. This avoids unnecessary duplicate objects (ALLEGRO_FONT and agui::Font, ALLEGRO_COLOR and agui::Color), which means less code to write and no duplicates at runtime (mainly affects fonts, images, similar). ALLEGRO_COLOR is a bit lower-level to work with than a custom class, but it's consistent, and I like consistent.

Requirements

• A C++23 compiler
• allegro, with allegro_font, allegro_color, allegro_primitives, allegro_image.
  • There are additional requirements if running the demos (which you won't if you use this library correctly), but allegro is automatically built if the demos are built, so this is a non-issue unless you have some weird fucking system config
  • Note that internally, these targets are linked as-is. It's up to the invoking CMakeLists to ensure these targets exist, or for files by those names to be discoverable by the linker. This may change if a better way to link is found.

Using the library

Recommended: FetchContent

include(FetchContent)

# TODO: later

License

MIT. See the LICENSE file.