Coming from a windows C# (visual studio) and Java background I’m very disappointed in the lack of support for User Interface development. I know some packages exist but they are developed by an individual. Perhaps I should just go back to those packages

Have you checked out Genie ? While it’s primarily designed for web-based GUIs and data apps, you could also use it to build desktop applications. We have a minimal working example using Electron in this repository .

[image] Andy2K11: The other thing I thought of, was using Web Assembly (WASM), but as far as I know the Julia support for it is still a way off and I’m not sure if it’s being actively developed? There have been a few experimental demonstrations of Julia and wasm in the past: 1. Introduction ·…

[image] ufechner7: What are monolithic applications? By monolithic (maybe not the best terminology), I mean standalone applications, like a word processor, spreadsheet, etc.

Maybe its just me and I’ve been looking in the wrong places, but nearly every tutorial I’ve found about using QTquick is about using QML. There are very few tutorials that use a prototyping/layout system like QT Creator (which seems to be broken for QML) or QT Design Studio (which seems kinda flake…

[image] mpeters2: By monolithic (maybe not the best terminology), I mean standalone applications, like a word processor, spreadsheet, etc. And why should you not be able to create them with Julia and QML? OK, you will need an installer like GitHub - PeaceFounder/AppBundler.jl: Bundle your Ju…

I started following Julia back in 2012 in the hope of migrating a big GUI package of mine done in Matlab. But I think that I’m fairly hopeless by now. It’s not only to have a good GUI framework but also the impossibility of having a standalone product without a multi-gigabyte chain of package depend…

[image] joa-quim: multi-gigabyte chain of package dependencies. And Matlab is smaller? (The size of new version of Matlab software totally 17.2 gb). Furthermore, if you really want to you will be able to make your app 10 times smaller with Julia 1.12, see Pushing the Limits of Small Binary Cr…

[image] ufechner7: And Matlab is smaller? By an order (or 2) of magnitude I would bet. A ~200 k LOC compiles to ~5 MB. I’m talking of Matlab 6.5 GUIs when Matlab had a true compiler. [image] ufechner7: see Pushing the Limits of Small Binary Creation I know about that but the limitatio…

[image] joa-quim: I’m talking of Matlab 6.5 GUIs when Matlab had a true compiler. Well, if you have a good solution that works for you then just stick to it.

How to design GUI interfaces in Julia?

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JamesNZ December 30, 2024, 7:03pm 18

Another option is CImGui.jl (disclaimer: I’m one of the maintainers), though it’s quite different from all the other options with its immediate-mode style.

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