A safe, lightweight wrapper over libui-ng-sys.
libui is a C library that provides a neutral interface to native GUI technologies (e.g., windows, widgets) on major OSes. libui-ng is the "next generation" of libui, developed and maintained separately. libui-ng-sys provides Rust bindings to libui-ng, and boing is a safe yet fairly unopinionated layer on top of libui-ng-sys.
Currently, boing only links with libui-ng—not the original libui. However, libui-ng-sys may be updated in the future to support a libui feature flag, in which case it should be trivial to update boing as well.
boing allocates UI control data in a set of typed bump allocators—each a single heap allocation, reallocated as necessary and freed at the end of Ui::run. This reduces the number of allocations performed, saving time in the process.
See DESIGN.md for an explanation of how boing was designed.
| Feature | Docs? | Impl? |
| ------------- | ----- | ----- |
| Area | ☐ | ☐ |
| UniBox | ☐ | ☑ |
| BiBox | ☐ | ☐ |
| Button | ☑ | ☑ |
| Checkbox | ☑ | ☑ |
| Combobox | ☐ | ☐ |
| Grid | ☐ | ☐ |
| Group | ☐ | ☑ |
| Image | ☐ | ☑ |
| Label | ☐ | ☑ |
| Menu | ☐ | ☑ |
| MenuItem | ☐ | ☐ |
| ProgressBar | ☐ | ☐ |
| Slider | ☐ | ☐ |
| Spinbox | ☐ | ☐ |
| Tab | ☐ | ☑ |
| Table | ☐ | ☐ |
| Window | ☐ | ☑ |