Nuklear
Minimal-state, immediate-mode graphical user interface toolkit written in ANSI C.
 
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Nuklear

This is a minimal-state, immediate-mode graphical user interface toolkit written in ANSI C and licensed under public domain. It was designed as a simple embeddable user interface for application and does not have any dependencies, a default render backend or OS window/input handling but instead provides a highly modular, library-based approach, with simple input state for input and draw commands describing primitive shapes as output. So instead of providing a layered library that tries to abstract over a number of platform and render backends, it focuses only on the actual UI.

Features

  • Immediate-mode graphical user interface toolkit
  • Single-header library
  • Written in C89 (ANSI C)
  • Small codebase (~18kLOC)
  • Focus on portability, efficiency and simplicity
  • No dependencies (not even the standard library if not wanted)
  • Fully skinnable and customizable
  • Low memory footprint with total control of memory usage if needed / wanted
  • UTF-8 support
  • No global or hidden state
  • Customizable library modules (you can compile and use only what you need)
  • Optional font baker and vertex buffer output
  • Documentation

Usage

This library is self-contained in one single header file and can be used either in header-only mode or in implementation mode. The header-only mode is used by default when included and allows including this header in other headers and does not contain the actual implementation.

The implementation mode requires defining the preprocessor macro NK_IMPLEMENTATION in one .c/.cpp file before #includeing this file, e.g.:

#define NK_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "nuklear.h"

IMPORTANT: Every time you include "nuklear.h" you have to define the same optional flags. This is very important; not doing it either leads to compiler errors, or even worse, stack corruptions.

Gallery

screenshot screen screen2 node skinning gamepad

Example

/* init gui state */
struct nk_context ctx;
nk_init_fixed(&ctx, calloc(1, MAX_MEMORY), MAX_MEMORY, &font);
enum {EASY, HARD};
static int op = EASY;
static float value = 0.6f;
static int i = 20;
if (nk_begin(&ctx, "Show", nk_rect(50, 50, 220, 220),
NK_WINDOW_BORDER|NK_WINDOW_MOVABLE|NK_WINDOW_CLOSABLE)) {
/* fixed widget pixel width */
nk_layout_row_static(&ctx, 30, 80, 1);
if (nk_button_label(&ctx, "button")) {
/* event handling */
}
/* fixed widget window ratio width */
nk_layout_row_dynamic(&ctx, 30, 2);
if (nk_option_label(&ctx, "easy", op == EASY)) op = EASY;
if (nk_option_label(&ctx, "hard", op == HARD)) op = HARD;
/* custom widget pixel width */
nk_layout_row_begin(&ctx, NK_STATIC, 30, 2);
{
nk_layout_row_push(&ctx, 50);
nk_label(&ctx, "Volume:", NK_TEXT_LEFT);
nk_layout_row_push(&ctx, 110);
nk_slider_float(&ctx, 0, &value, 1.0f, 0.1f);
}
nk_layout_row_end(&ctx);
}
nk_end(&ctx);
nk_context
Definition nuklear.h:5761
nk_rect
Definition nuklear.h:270

example

Bindings

There are a number of nuklear bindings for different languages created by other authors. I cannot attest for their quality since I am not necessarily proficient in any of these languages. Furthermore there are no guarantee that all bindings will always be kept up to date:

Credits

Developed by Micha Mettke and every direct or indirect contributor to the GitHub.

Embeds stb_texedit, stb_truetype and stb_rectpack by Sean Barrett (public domain) Embeds ProggyClean.ttf font by Tristan Grimmer (MIT license).

Big thank you to Omar Cornut (ocornut@github) for his imgui library and giving me the inspiration for this library, Casey Muratori for handmade hero and his original immediate-mode graphical user interface idea and Sean Barrett for his amazing single-header libraries which restored my faith in libraries and brought me to create some of my own. Finally Apoorva Joshi for his single-header file packer.

License

Nuklear is avaliable under either the MIT License or public domain. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more info.