Creme is a widget-based GUI library for games and other interactive software. Its widgets are rendered using a tileset, allowing you to change the looks of your application by simply changing your tileset.

One major feature of Creme is its anchoring system provided through its custom cm_value structure. It allows you to express position and size in terms of other areas. As such, anchoring the left edge of widget_1 to the right edge of widget_2 automatically updates widget_1's left value whenever widget_2's right value changes. It is similar (inspired, actually) to Qt's QML anchoring system.

Creme is non-intrusive in regards to your rendering system: instead of risking harming your rendering state, it provides a list of basic commands that you can interpret and render when and how you want.

Creme never allocates memory by itself (and never frees them as well). This might sound harsh but the benefits are greater than the hurdle: you will retain full control of your memory, allowing you to use whatever allocation strategy is best for your platform.

It is written in plain C99, ensuring high compatibility with many systems and platforms.

Features

• Looks of your application can be easily changed
• Your GUI is as beautiful as your tileset
• Anchoring makes really easy to position widgets
• Treats your memory with respect
• Clean and straightforward API
• Render technology agnostic

If you wish to build and run examples, you will need to clone this repository and also update its submodules.

git clone [email protected]:mobius3/creme.git
cd creme
git submodule update --init

You also need to run CMake with flags CREME_BUILD_EXTRAS and CREME_BUILD_EXAMPLES:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCREME_BUILD_EXTRAS=1 -DCREME_BUILD_EXAMPLES=1
cmake --build .

Examples will be inside the bin/ folder inside the build directory.