V UI 0.0.3
![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vlang/ui/c2f802a137b5171dade1d5fdc364cd92d34e3ca7/examples/users/screenshot.png)
ui.window({
width: 600
height: 400
title: 'V UI Demo'
}, [
ui.row({
stretch: true
margin: {10, 10, 10, 10}
}, [
ui.column({
width: 200
spacing: 13
}, [
ui.textbox(
max_len: 20
width: 200
placeholder: 'First name'
text: &app.first_name
)
ui.textbox(
max_len: 50
width: 200
placeholder: 'Last name'
text: &app.last_name
)
])
])
])
Installation
v up
v install ui
Running the examples
cd examples
v run users.v
v run temperature.v
v run ...
This is pre-alpha software.
V UI is a cross-platform UI toolkit written in the V programming language for Windows, macOS, Linux, and soon Android, iOS and the web (JS/WASM). V UI uses native widgets on Windows and macOS, on all other platforms the widgets are drawn by V UI. Right now only the non-native widgets are available.
This is a very early version of the library, lots of features are missing, lots of things will change.
The API is declarative, and there will be hot reloading, similar to SwiftUI and Flutter.
On Linux, V UI will be a full-featured lightweight alternative to GTK and Qt.
Discord: #v-ui
channel
Documentation will be available soon. In the meantime use the examples as the documentation. The framework is very simple and straightforward.
Dependencies
Binaries built with V UI will have no dependencies.
To develop V UI apps, you need to install V,
glfw
and freetype
. glfw
dependency will soon be removed.
macOS:
brew install glfw freetype
Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libfreetype6-dev
Arch/Manjaro:
sudo pacman -S glfw-x11 freetype2
Fedora:
sudo dnf install glfw glfw-devel freetype-devel
ClearLinux:
sudo swupd bundle-add devpkg-libX11 devpkg-mesa devpkg-freetype devpkg-glfw3
Windows:
v setup-freetype
License
V UI is licensed under GPL3. A commercial license will be available. Open-source projects will have access to the commercial license for free. Every single feature will be open-sourced right away and available under both licenses. At some point in the future the library will be relicensed under MIT.
Contributing
After the first contribution you will be asked to agree to a CLA, declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution.