Available here: https://github.com/Clemapfel/mousetrap.jl Features Designed specifically for Julia Choose from 40+ pre-made Widgets, or create your own widgets from scratch Fully abstracted, OpenGL-based rendering engine Hand-written 10-chapter manual and verbose doc strings for every symbol Availa…

Could the installation process be simplified? Why is there more than one JLL? Is there any reason the packages are not registered?

How does this play with Makie? Can I present Makie plots and visualizations to the window you create? I have been using Makie so far to create GUIs, so am surprised that Makie isn’t mentioned anywhere on this post or in the documentation.

Theoretically you could render to a OpenGL canvas, I have not tried this though and I don’t think it will be officially supported in the future

I’m waiting for registering it until it’s somewhat stable, the reason for the multiple jlls can be found here . Once it’s on the registry installation will be a one-liner like it should be

What’s the main reason this doesn’t build upon Gtk4.jl? Seems like it could just offer high level API for that?

awesome, now we just need to re-implement openscad with it :smiley:

[image] Clemapfel: Theoretically you could render to a OpenGL canvas, I have not tried this though and I don’t think it will be officially supported in the future I found this statement surprising. I would guess that supporting GLMakie.jl is almost essential for Mousetrap.jl to be widely used…

I have an application in which I need to display grayscale images in fullscreen on a second monitor. Can it be easily accomplished in Mousetrap.jl?

I think he means Mousetrap.jl is infrastructure code and he will not officially support GLMakie.jl; because it doesn’t need to (and/or he doesn’t want to maintain it). [I see I misread, you were asking for support for (renderable) OpenGL canvas, rather than support for GLMakie, what I though you we…

I wasn’t directly asking for support for myself really, others were. I was just surprised that supporting embedding Makie.jl is not one of the core aims of any new GUI library. Not necessarily via dependencies, just by making sure its easy to embed an OpenGL canvas and working with Makie.jl people …

A new Julia GUI Engine has appeared! Mousetrap.jl is now available

Package Announcements

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Note, someone has taken over maintenance, because the original developer has health issues, see here:

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[ANN] Mousetrap, the new Julia GUI Engine, now supports GLMakie & macOS Package Announcements package , announcement	13	3870	May 26, 2025
What are the ways to make GUI in Julia (review wanted) Community	10	8477	October 26, 2023
Mousetrap says screen not DRI3 capable General Usage	2	252	May 15, 2025
Could Julia embed graphics lib.? New to Julia question	8	474	October 26, 2023
Best GUI package for beginners General Usage gui	5	2887	November 5, 2024

A new Julia GUI Engine has appeared! Mousetrap.jl is now available

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