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Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005

Casey Muratori · 150K views · 2016-05-12 · 40:12

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Overview

Casey Muratori's 2005 video introducing immediate-mode GUIs as an alternative to retained widget toolkits. He explains the motivation and shows minimal-state button logic.

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Seen as the origin of the IMGUI idea that inspired Dear ImGui, recommended to anyone curious about immediate-mode UI design.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2017–2024

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tuckerpo · 2024-01 · Recommendation

Casey Muratori of handmade hero fame is one of the original pioneers (potentially the first?) of immediate mode user-interfaces. Check out this lecture/demo from nearly 20 years ago: [VIDEO]

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WhereIsTheTruth · 2023-12 · Recommendation

ImGui is engine/GPU agnostic Themeing isn't a just a retained mode thing, you can do wonders with immediate UIs, even though (dear)ImGui doesn't provide much, you can still do wonders: [LINK] The gaming cheating community is quite creative as well: [LINK] More on that topic: [VIDEO]

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danhite · 2022-03 · Recommendation

in 2016 Casey Muratori wrote a few words about his old video "IMMEDIATE-MODE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (2005)" -- apparently he'd been using the technique for years by then and had coined the, now commonly used, imgui acronym -- see: [LINK] and if you dive into that video at 16:50 you'll see a very elegant description of minimal state immediate mode button logic; direct time link: [VIDEO]

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