AxGui

AxGui is a simple lightweight GUI. Supported backends:

• OpenGL
• Vulkan
• DirectX
• Bitmap
• Every surface type supported by Skia

How does rendering works?

Skia is a very efficient hardware accelated 2D Drawing library developed by google. AxGUI simply uses this library to draw the controls.

Benefits

• Designed for embedding into 2D/3D Rendering applications (2D/3D Engine, Game engines, ...)
• Very few Object Allocations per draw call
• Very fast draws
• UI Calculations and Rendering could be done in seperate Threads
• Define UI via Code or XML
• Integrated SVG-Renderer
• All events (Mouse, Keyboard, Resize, ...) are virtualized.

Differences to ImGUI

• ImGUI is Designed primary for Development/Debugging UI
• Persistent UI State between Draw calls
• That's resulting in higher frame rates
• Simpler creation of custom controls
• No need for implementing the low levle rendering interface (vertex data, ...)

Differences to AvalonUI

• AvalonUI is designed primary for GUI-First applications, not for 3D games.
• AvalonUI is overloaded with features you do not need in 3D games.
• AvalonUI has Less control in rendering pipeline

Development Status

AxGui is currently in Development. There's no stable release yet.