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luigi

Nim bindings for the barebones single-header GUI library for Win32, X11, and Essence: Luigi. Please do note that while Win32 and X11 have been tested, Essence has not, so it might not work using this library.

Current State of the Bindings

Currently the bindings are kinda low-level, but this shouldn't be a problem. However, in the future I will create high-level bindings like I have done for uing. Unlike uing however, these bindings do not support choosing how to add/link the library to your application. Static compilation is the only option currently and I plan it to stay that way, as its honestly much easier (for me atleast). In addition, Luigi isn't fully 100% cross-platform, as it supports Essence instead of MacOS, so you should keep that in mind.

Though you should check out Essence OS: https://nakst.gitlab.io/essence

Also Freetype support is currently being worked on; it doesn't work right now out-of-the-box.

Installation

You can install via nimble:

nimble install luigi

Documenation

As for right now, you can read Luigi's README here as for how to get started. The function names are generally the same with the "UI" prefix removed. Also, there's a few examples in the examples/ directory.

Also, side note, if you ever need to enter any data where it would be of the type ptrdiff_t in C (generally found on text-related funcs, usually called bytes or something similar), enter a integer cast to a pointer.

Like so:

let label = labelCreate(addr panel.e, 0, "Label", cast[pointer](-1))

If you just need to put in -1, use the castInt const instead of casting (though it should be default on most functions).