Amulet User Interface Development Environment

Amulet includes many features specifically designed to make the creation of highly-interactive, graphical, direct manipulation user interfaces significantly easier, including a prototype-instance object model, constraints, high-level input handling including automatic undo, built-in support for animation and gesture-recognition, and a full set of widgets.

Amulet was originally developed in the 1990s at CMU:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet/

Building

Amulet can be built via cmake. Once you've cloned this repository:

• git clone https://github.com/amulet-ui/openamulet.git
• cd openamulet
• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake .. -G Ninja
• ninja
• ./samples/checkers

You can use other build tools instead of ninja. Other samples or tests can be run, but some require assets which can be found in the data directory. To help the Amulet applications find these assets, set the AMULET_DIR environment variable to point to that data directory:

• export AMULET_DIR=/path/to/openamulet/data

Platform Support

This build of Amulet has been used on macOS with an X server installed. It doesn't have support for native Mac GUIs.

It is also known to build on Linux and will probably be easy to get working on other Unix platforms.

It has, in the past, run on Microsoft Windows. It hopefully won't be hard to get that working again.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome and encouraged.