lui: a simple cross platform gui library for lua

What is it?

This is a binding of libui (https://github.com/andlabs/libui) to lua. It is almost complete (as of 50.05.2018), but still early in development and very much in flux. As is libui. All of libui is linked together with the lua specific stuff into one module, so that you need only one dynamic library. Currently only lua 5.3 and linux are supported, work will continue to support lua down to 5.1, and also Windows and Mac OS X, and to keep up with new libui features. Also, luarocks.

The module is currently built using a Makefile. You will need git to fetch a recent version of libui. A simple `make` should build the module lui.so, a `make doc` will create a html documentation file for the module.

As this is still in development, updates to the repo will happen without announcements on this page of the tset.de landing page.

Updates

2018-05-22 updated to build with new version of libui. The new text rendering stuff isn't in yet.
2018-05-30 The new text rendering stuff is almost complete and working.
2018-06-01 ... fully complete and working.

Documentation

Currently there is the auto generated reference for lui. Examples are in the samples subfolder of the project source.

Download

Given its early state, lui is available only from its mercurial repository at https://hg.tset.de/public/lui.

License

The lui module and all accompanying documentation and additional source code is released under the terms of the MIT license.

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