The GUI to end all GUI libraries (Let's Dream!)

[Julio César Carrascal Urquijo]

Lutger wrote:
> Another interesting idea is immediate mode gui. It basically means that 
> no or almost no state is maintained, at least as far as the user is 
> concerned. Instead, the gui is recreated as needed. I've been playing a 
> bit with it and it works nicely, but somehow I had some trouble with 
> more complex gui's.
> 
> Here's a link, the video is worth it imo:
> 
> https://mollyrocket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=134


What worries me about immediate mode guis is performance. I suppose they 
are great for building the gui portion of a game or some really flashy 
app but I don't see an improvement for typical applications where the 
gui doesn't change unless until it receives some input from the user.

Just picture a dumb +30 fields form that's using 100% CPU because it is 
repainting it self every frame.




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Julio César Carrascal Urquijo
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