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GuiLite Previewer - WYSIWYG extension for GuiLite
- GuiLite is the smalles/simplest/stablest GUI library for all platforms, it has only 5,000 line C++ code.
- GuiLite Previewer is a Visual Studio Code extension, could extract GUI information from C++ code and preview GUI at preview page(What you see is what you get)
- No need for drag-and-drop widgets, everything (e.g. code/design/build/debug) could be done by coding
- No need for special GUI editor(e.g. Android Studio, Qt designer)
- No need for Extensible Markup Language(e.g. xml, xaml)
Demo
Quick start
- Open VS Code
- Click Extensions
- Search "GuiLite" and install
How to build/debug GuiLite Previewer?
- Download npm, and install
- Run in Windows command line:
cd GuiLitePreviwer
⚠️and make sure you're in GuiLitePreviwer folder⚠️
- Run in Windows command line:
npm install
- Run in Windows command line:
code .
which will open the project in VS Code window
- In VS Code window you just opened, Press
F5
to build/debug the extension
- You will get an new VS Code window with the extension you build above
- In the new VS Code window, open your source code(e.g. test.cpp)
ctrl + shift + p
, and input GuiLite: preview layout
- You will see your GUI layout in preview page