RanGUI

This is a simple windows only GUI framework built using Direct2D, designed to provide an easy-to-use UI for games.

Features

• Easy to use UI components
• Various easy to use controls: Buttons, Labels, Panel, Sliders, TextBoxes, ComboBoxes, CheckBoxes, ToggleSwitches...
• Layout for organizing controls: VerticalLayout, HorizontalLayout, GridLayout, and TableLayout
• Event handling system

Example

Check the example in the example directory.

Example	Description
	Simple UI
	Complex UI

Requirements

• Windows
• CMake 3.0 or higher
• I just tested with MSVC with C++17 support

Installation

Using CMake

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
project(my-game)

include(FetchContent)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)

FetchContent_Declare(
  RanGUI
  GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/ran-j/ran-gui
  GIT_TAG main
  GIT_PROGRESS TRUE
)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(RanGUI)

add_executable(my-game main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(my-game PRIVATE RanGUI)

Using repository

git clone
cd ran-gui

mkdir build

cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

# link RanGUI.lib to your project