Classeine is a library designed to provide all the necessary tools for creating full-featured rich and portable UI applications built on top of SDL2 in modern C++.

Please note that it is currently in an early stage of development.

Features

• Written in modern C++
• Built on top of the standard library and:
  • SDL2
  • SDL2_ttf
  • https://github.com/aminosbh/sdl2-cmake-modules
• No exceptions
• No raw pointers
• No manual memory management (through extensive usage of smart pointers and RAII)
• Pluggable renderers and available custom renderers
• Global and per-control theme management (light and dark themes built-in but customized ones can be easily installed)

Supported Platforms

• Linux
• WebAssembly through Emscripten
• Windows

Demo in WebAssembly

https://ebasconp.github.io/classeine-wasm-demo/classeine-demo/

GitHub

http://www.github.com/ebasconp/classeine

Documentation

http://www.classeine.org

Releases

0.1.1-alpha released (20250104):

• Added event_listener_scope_guard
• Added layer and layer_manager to handle layers

0.1.0-alpha (20241130)

Controls

• button
• check_box
• dynamic_content_pane
• empty_control
• label
• main_pane (control that will show the application)
• padding_control
• radio_button
• static_content_pane
• tab_control
• tab_page
• toggle_button

Containers

• dual_layout_container
• flow_layout_container
• hbox_layout_container
• vbox_layout_container
• xy_layout_container

Managers

• font_manager
• layer_manager
• mouse_manager
• system_backend
• theme_manager
• ui_manager (general UI manager)

Additional tools

• Properties
• Event handling
• Simple debug tooling
• panic, assertion and strings tools
• Lazy instantiation tools