andlabs/ui

Features

• Cross-Platform UI Frameworks - Provides a unified set of instructions to render native windows, forms, and layouts across different operating systems.
• Native Widget Mapping - Maps a single set of high-level instructions to the native operating system controls of the host desktop environment.
• Native Widget Toolkits - Provides a comprehensive collection of native OS controls including buttons, text inputs, and tables for desktop applications.
• Custom Shape Rendering - Renders lines, gradients, and custom geometric shapes directly onto application windows using low-level commands.
• Vector-Based Path Rendering - Provides a vector rendering pipeline for drawing geometric paths and shapes that maintain quality at any resolution.
• GUI Event Loops - Manages the main event loop and program state during the initialization of native graphical user interfaces.
• Cross-Platform GUI Frameworks - Provides a framework for developing graphical user interfaces that run natively across multiple desktop operating systems.
• Desktop Applications - Enables the creation of desktop applications using the native controls and widgets of the host operating system.
• Alignment & Spacing - Manages horizontal and vertical grouping of elements with padding and proportional stretching.
• Flexible Grid Layouts - Features a two-dimensional layout system with cell spanning and adaptive stretching to handle window resizing.
• Desktop GUI Frameworks - Enables the creation of desktop applications using native operating system widgets and controls.
• Main Thread Dispatchers - Implements a main-thread dispatcher to safely execute function calls on the GUI thread from background processes.
• System Dialogs - Provides tools for triggering native system dialogs for file selection, color picking, and font selection.
• User Interaction Handling - Captures and processes user input events, such as button clicks and value changes, to trigger specific actions.
• Vector Graphics Rendering - Includes a rendering engine for creating geometric paths via lines, arcs, and curves to render custom shapes.
• Window Managers - Offers utilities for creating and controlling application windows and organizing layout grids on the desktop.
• Application Shutdown Callbacks - Provides callback functions to determine whether the application should quit or continue running when a shutdown signal arrives.
• Comboboxes - Implements an input component combining a text entry field with a selectable dropdown list.
• Data Tables - Displays structured data in a native table format using configurable columns and data model handlers.
• Column Definitions - Allows the definition of table columns to display text, images, or checkboxes with editability controls.
• Date and Time Pickers - Provides a native input field for selecting dates and times with callback triggers.
• File Dialogs - Provides native system dialogs for selecting files to open or specifying save locations.
• Dynamic Data Tables - Enables the runtime population of tabular views using dynamic data arrays and handler functions.
• Data Model Mapping - Uses handler functions to map dynamic data sources to cells within a structured native table interface.
• Element Groupings - Organizes multiple interface elements within labeled boxes to cluster related inputs.
• Window Appearance Controllers - Allows configuration of window appearance, including border visibility and the assignment of primary content areas.
• Font Pickers - Provides a native button that opens a font picker and triggers a callback upon selection.
• Event Handling Systems - Implements an architecture for attaching listeners and triggering custom functions in response to native system and user events.
• Control State Management - Manages the interaction state of UI elements, allowing the toggling of visibility and enabled status.
• Modal Dialogs - Manages the lifecycle of native system pop-ups, including file pickers and alerts, that block the main interface.
• Native Input Controls - Gathers data from users through native system controls like date pickers, color selectors, and multi-line text fields.
• Numeric Inputs - Implements input fields for integers featuring increment buttons and range constraints.
• Plain Text Input Fields - Provides single-line text entry fields with specialized modes for passwords and search queries.
• Multiline Text Areas - Renders a text area for multi-line input supporting word-wrapping and horizontal scrolling.
• Progress Bars - Renders a horizontal bar to show the completion status of a process or an indeterminate state.
• Radio Button Groups - Provides a set of mutually exclusive buttons for single-choice selection.
• Range Sliders - Implements a horizontal bar for selecting integer values from a defined range via a draggable pointer.
• Selectable Lists - Renders a selectable list of strings allowing users to pick a single option from a menu.
• Tabbed Interfaces - Organizes multiple pages of controls into a single container using labeled tabs.
• Tabular Data Components - Provides UI components for rendering structured data in tables with configurable columns and dynamic content.
• Form Layouts - Arranges groups of controls vertically with labels and configurable spacing to organize input fields.
• Text Components - Renders non-interactive lines of text that can be updated dynamically in the user interface.
• Window Lifecycle Controllers - Provides lifecycle control over windows, including callbacks to intercept and validate window closing requests.
• Desktop and GUI Development - Platform-native GUI library.
• Graphical User Interfaces - Native cross-platform GUI toolkit.
• GUI and Desktop Development - Platform-native GUI library for desktop interfaces.
• GUI Development - Cross-platform native GUI library.
• GUI Frameworks - Provides a platform-native GUI library.

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