List of FreeBASIC GUI libraries/frameworks

[systemctl]

1. GTK+ (builtin)

2. IUP (builtin)

3. FB GUI

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12592

4. FB GUI 2 (Window9)

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=17058

5. FLTK

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24547

6. WinFBX

https://github.com/JoseRoca/WinFBX

7. MyFbFramework

https://github.com/XusinboyBekchanov/MyFbFramework

This is about the main players. People's own GUI libraries are too many that without the help of you I can't know about it. Please help me add the missing to pieces.

[systemctl]

8. XCGUI

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=27325

9. WX-C

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=20581

10. GUI-CHUNG

viewtopic.php?t=26403

11. SGL

https://github.com/ruanjiaxing/SGL-FreeBASIC

12. SGUI

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13903

[systemctl]

The builtin GTK+ headers are pretty old. Here is the latest headers by TJF:

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26932

[Xusinboy Bekchanov]

13. X11
viewtopic.php?t=1606

14. WinAPI
viewtopic.php?t=13451

15. WinFormsX
https://github.com/PaulSquires/WinFormsX

16. Simple WinAPI GUI library
viewtopic.php?t=24617

[systemctl]

13. X11
viewtopic.php?t=1606

14. WinAPI
viewtopic.php?t=13451

15. WinFormsX
https://github.com/PaulSquires/WinFormsX

16. Simple WinAPI GUI library
viewtopic.php?t=24617

Oh, I really don't know about them.

[Xusinboy Bekchanov]

There is also:

17. Qt with FB

viewtopic.php?t=15187

18. XForms GUI Toolkit

viewtopic.php?t=22671

19. FreeBasic Windows GUI Toolkit

viewtopic.php?t=14224

[systemctl]

There is also:

17. Qt with FB

viewtopic.php?t=15187

The most interesting is this. But unfortunately it's not developed anymore.

[oyster]

I met https://github.com/ying32/govcl recently, which is not a FreeBASIC GUI library, but is a GUI library based on Lazarus LCL for Go language. GoVCL is said to be a cross-platform GUI solution since Lazarus LCL does so.

Then I downloaded the pre-built binary file, and have a glimpse. I think the "liblcl.dll", which is compressed by upx to ~1.5M, is filled with Cdecl functions, so I give it a try

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'~ Declare sub Application_Initialize Cdecl Lib "liblcl.dll"()

dim as any ptr DLL
dim Application_Initialize as sub cdecl()
dim Application_CreateForm as sub cdecl()
dim Application_Run as sub cdecl()

DLL = dylibload("liblcl.dll")
Application_Initialize = dylibsymbol( DLL, "Application_Initialize" )
Application_CreateForm = dylibsymbol( DLL, "Application_CreateForm")
Application_Run = dylibsymbol( DLL, "Application_Run")

Application_Initialize()
Application_CreateForm()
Application_Run()

however the generated EXE file crashed if I run it.

There seems to be no document especially in C style. So it is a pity.

[marcov]

Freepascal (and Lazarus) uses register; calling convention by default, not cdecl, but the GO guys could have hacked their copy of course.

[mdchipman]

oyster,

This works in C and Windows.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>

unsigned int __stdcall Application_Instance(void);
void __stdcall Application_Initialize(unsigned int);
unsigned int __stdcall Application_CreateForm(unsigned int, unsigned int);
void __stdcall Application_Run(unsigned int);

void __stdcall Form_SetCaption(unsigned int, char *);
void __stdcall Form_SetWidth(unsigned int, unsigned int);
void __stdcall Form_SetHeight(unsigned int, unsigned int);

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    unsigned int app;
    unsigned int pf;

    app = Application_Instance();

    Application_Initialize(app);

    pf = Application_CreateForm(app, 1);

    Form_SetWidth(pf, 320);
    Form_SetHeight(pf, 200);

    Form_SetCaption(pf, "Lcl Form");

    Application_Run(app);

    return 0;
}

[Dinosaur]

Hi All

CGUI written in C but ported to FB for many years now.

http://cgui.sourceforge.net/

Regards