Multi-platform Application Framework NUI Released
NUI is a C++ application framework that runs on the iPhone, Mac OS X (Universal), Win32 and Linux. Its main distinctive features is its use of 3D hardware to render the UI via OpenGL, OpenGL Es and Direct3D. Features include:
- Low level abstraction: string, files, paths, streams, network, timers, threads, mutexes, etc.
- Widget layout engine
- Really many widgets: text, grids, boxes, collumn views, tree views, etc.
- Integrated widget tree visual introspection/debugging
- Web-like CSS engine
- Modern rendering and compositing engine
- Animations for widgets and their attributes
- Attributes to remote control widgets
- Audio IO and Audio file loading/saving (including compressed audio files decoding)
- Stable and proven lib: many applications have been released since 2001 with NUI at their core.
The lib is dual licensed under the GPL and commercial licensing for non-free software developers.
- Related Link: http://www.libnui.net
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