A cross-platform GUI framework written in C++23.
Note
Futurewalker is still in an early phase of development.
If you're interested in the project, try it out and give us your feedback!
- Class-based retained-mode API
- Composable, responsive layout system
- Customizable styling system
- Coroutine support
- GPU accelerated graphics powered by Skia
- Styleless core + styled components
The primary goal of this project is to create a modern GUI framework for complex tool applications.
More specific goals are:
- Supporting a wide range of features required by complex native applications
- Incorporating modern GUI concepts like responsive layouts, gestures, etc
- Focusing on flexibility, customizability, and extensibility
- Supporting multiple platforms, ideally all of popular ones
- Decent performance and energy efficiency
- Better safety story compared to other C++ frameworks
- Better async story compared to other C++ frameworks
Non-goals:
- Native look and feel
- In-game UIs
- Externally hosted UIs like audio software plugins
The current focus of development is building the underlying machinery for higher-level components.
A few UI controls and layouts are available at the moment.
Currently only supports Windows 11.
| OS | Support Status |
|---|---|
| Windows 10 | ❔ Undecided |
| Windows 11 | 🚧 In Development |
| macOS | 🚧 In Development |
| iOS | 📝 Planned for 2027~ |
| Android | 📝 Planned for 2027~ |
| Linux | ❔ Undecided |
| Web | ❔ Undecided |
Note
These instructions are for building the tests and examples in this repository.
If you want to build your own application using Futurewalker, see futurewalker-cpp-template repository.
You can build tests and examples with following steps:
- Install Conan package manager
pip3 install conan
- Set up the local Skia package
git clone https://github.com/mocabe/conan-skia.git
conan remote add conan_skia ./conan-skia
- Build the project
git clone https://github.com/mocabe/futurewalker.git
cd futurewalker
conan build . -pr:h=./conan/vs2022_x86_64_Debug.profile --build=missing
Note
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Futurewalker is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.
Additionally, codes under examples folder are licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal License (public domain).
This repository contains icon SVG files provided by Lucide Icons project, which is licensed under the ISC License.