bWidgets ======== _bWidgets is a cross-platform widget toolkit with a narrow scope, designed specifically for [Blender](https://www.blender.org/)._ __Note:__ This is not an official Blender project! Unlike other toolkits, bWidgets does _not_ contain window management, event management, graphics libraries, font management and the like. It is solely focused on core widget features: Widget types, layouts, styling, interaction. Do not attempt to use bWidgets at this point. A lot of the core designs are still in progress.

Demo application in different Styles

Mission & Goals =============== __Mission:__ Explore new design ideas & technology for the next decade of Blender UI development; start with a blank canvas. The fundamental goals in relation to Blender are: * Address long standing design issues & technical debt. Apply lessons learnt from the current design. * Keep good working designs! * Enrich the UI design paradigms, don’t fight them. * Extend UI design vocabulary & functionality: Animations, drag & drop, much improved theming, multi-line widgets, custom widgets, etc. * Professional grounds for UI development: Clear specifications, comprehensive documentation, hugely increased testability, Blender UI builder app, debugging tools, ... * A reusable widget toolkit for the Blender design, adoptable by other Blender services for a unified look & feel (standalone). * Support exposing the entire toolkit to the Blender Python API. * Bring fun back to Blender UI coding! Further Documentation ===================== * [Documentation landing page](https://julianeisel.github.io/bWidgets/index.html) (subpages contain source-code documentation). * [High level code design documentation](https://julianeisel.github.io/bWidgets/md_docs_bWidgets_about.html). * [Build instructions](https://julianeisel.github.io/bWidgets/md_docs_build_instructions.html). Licensing ======== Components of this repository have different licenses: * bWidgets itself is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2 or later. * This is a temporary solution because it contains snippets from GPL licensed Blender code. * Further contributions will be dual-licensed under GPL2 (or later) and the MIT license (see LICENSE.txt) until further notice. It is planned to switch to license that allows usage in non-GPL projects too, e.g. an MIT-like license. * The demo application is permanently licensed under GPL2 or later. * The demo application further includes source files of third party libraries together with their respective license files. * Everything else (namely documentation and unit tests) is licenced under the MIT license. # Supported Platforms bWidgets itself only requires a compiler supporting the C++11 ABI.
The demo application however requires Freetype2 and OpenGL 3.3 to compile/run. It has been succesfully build on a number of macOS, Linux and Windows systems.