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 | 🚧 Planned for 2026~ |
| 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.
There is not yet a proper way to develop applications.
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
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Licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0