This package provides a Julia language wrapper for cimgui: a thin c-api wrapper programmatically generated for the excellent C++ immediate mode gui Dear ImGui. Dear ImGui is mainly for creating content creation tools and visualization / debug tools. You could browse Gallery to get an idea of its use cases.
pkg> add CImGui
julia> using CImGui
julia> include(joinpath(pathof(CImGui), "..", "..", "demo", "demo.jl"))
julia> using CImGui
julia> include(joinpath(pathof(CImGui), "..", "..", "examples", "demo.jl"))
All of these examples are one-to-one ported from Dear ImGui's C++ examples and there is an interactive manual for quickly locating the code. You could also run ? CImGui.xxx
to retrieve docs:
help?> CImGui.Button
Button(label) -> Bool
Button(label, size) -> Bool
Return true when the value has been changed or when pressed/selected.
One thing that is necessary but the package doesn't provide is the rendering loop.
Note that all ImGui widgets should run within CImGui.Begin()
...CImGui.End()
, if not, a crash is waiting for you. For example, directly running CImGui.Button("My button")
in REPL will crash Julia.
An example rendering loop module is provided here for those users who don't bother to study those boilerplate code and eager to draw some widgets on the screen.
julia> using CImGui
julia> include(joinpath(pathof(CImGui), "..", "..", "examples", "Renderer.jl"))
Main.Renderer
julia> using .Renderer
julia> Renderer.render(width = 360, height = 480, title = "IMGUI Window") do
CImGui.Begin("Hello ImGui")
CImGui.Button("My Button") && @show "triggered"
CImGui.End()
end
Task (runnable) @0x00000001136bead0
The API provided in this package is as close as possible to the original C++ API. When translating C++ code to Julia, please follow the tips below:
- Replace
ImGui::
toCImGui.
; using LibCImGui
to import all of theImGuiXXX
types into the current namespace;- Member function calling should be translated in Julia style:
fonts.AddFont(cfg)
=>CImGui.AddFont(fonts, cfg)
; - [
using CImGui.CSyntax
] provides two useful macros:@c
for translating C's&
operator on immutables and@cstatic
-block for emulating C'sstatic
keyword;
As mentioned before, this package aims to provide the same user experience as the original C++ API, so any high-level abstraction should go into a more high-level package. Redux.jl
might be of interest to you if you're looking for state management frameworks.
LibCImGui is a thin wrapper over cimgui. It's one-to-one mapped to the original cimgui APIs. By using CImGui.LibCImGui, all of the ImGui-prefixed types, enums and ig-prefixed functions will be imported into the current namespace. It's mainly for people who prefer to use original cimgui's interface.
The default backend is based on ModernGL and GLFW which are stable and under actively maintained. Other popular backends like SFML and SDL could be added in the future if someone should invest time to make these packages work in post Julia 1.0 era.
Only the Julia code in this repo is released under MIT license. Other assets such as those fonts in the fonts
folder are released under their own license.