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

[Julio César Carrascal Urquijo]

Lutger wrote:
> You can, instead of using a frame-based approach, repaint as needed. The 
> lack of state is in the interface, behind the scenes a library can do 
> caching. I don't remember the link, but there was some guy who rewrote 
> his traditional gui for a cellphone to an imgui one, and stated that 
> performance was about the same.
> 
> One benefit though is that in normal gui's, a whole lot a state is 
> retained and duplicated between the application and the gui library. In 
> complex application, that sucks performance.
> 

All the implementations I've seen use real-time redrawing which is 
obviously overkill for this type of application. But you are right, it 
is certainly possible.


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Julio César Carrascal Urquijo
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