flurinbruehwiler/flamui

A desktop UI framework

I'm working on:

• a cross platform desktop UI framework: flamui
• Joa, a keystorke launcher that uses flamui as the UI framework
• FuzzySearch, a fuzzy string comparing library thats used by Joa
• a small nuget package with various helper methods
• many small test projects like a Chat Platform, a historical map viewer or a Movie Platform

I'm also a professional Minecraft clone developer, see Minecraft in C#, Minecraft in C and FlareOS (an OS for running Minecraft)

flamui's Issues

Enhancement: Styling

• Borders and corner radius should be defined per side of the div
• Styles should be reset each frame and not be "stateful", if this proves too difficult, at least reset them when hot reloading.
• Add margin
• TODO

Components

• Disposable Components
• OnInitialize
• RenderFragments (via usings)

Roadmap to alpha

This project has still quite a long road to an initial alpha release, this issue tracks the remaining tasks that need to be completed.

• #9
• #11
• #10
• #14
• #5
• #3
• #2
• #6
• #7
• #8
• #4
• #1
• #15

Windowing

Bugs

• When having multiple Windows, resizing them causes the content to flicker
• Window resizing is laggy
• When having multiple windows some windows become unresponsive
• When starting a flamui app, the screen is completely white for a few frames

Features

• Ability to define a popup window
• Ability to remove/customize the title bar
• Ability to pass parameters to windows

BUG: When starting a flamui app, the screen is completely white for a few frames.

Especially noticeable on slower devices.

Enhancement: Implement repaint boundaries

Currently, if anything changes, the entire screen gets re-rendered. There should be the concept of repaint boundaries, the inside of these boundaries should be painted onto separate layers and then composited together on the GPU.

Text & Text Input

Bugs

• Text is blurry

Features

• Multiline Text
• Text Selection (Mouse)
• Text Input should be in the main package and not in Flamui.Components
• Text Input should support a cursor

Roadmap

Hey, maybe build a roadmap for this project and keep everyone updated, like a to do list for this repo and when a feature is done you just remove it or mark it as done

Enhancement: Cascading Styles

Currently, there is a now way of setting a global text color.

Make a property on the div, i.e. DefaultTextColor that applies to all Text content within that div.

Enhancement: Scrolling

Scrolling should support a scrollbar with the following features:

• Customization
• Smooth scrolling
• Vertical and Horizontal scrolling

Documentation: Create a proper documentation website

BUG: Layout is sometimes delayed by one render

If you open the ComponentGallery, the dropdown layout has a bug:

After the first rerender, the bug is fixed:

Enhancement: Improve the DebugWindow

BUG: Creating a second window after startup doesn't work.

Currently multi window only works, if both windows are created a startup.

Layouting

• fix the current bugs of the layouting system
• Add min/max Height/Width

Does it work on macOS or Linux?

Hello there, I just found this interesting project and I wanted to try it out on my macOS computer. I followed the basic hello world example, but I couldn't run the app. Is it expected to work on macOS or Linux currently, or is this Windows-only right now?