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UI, Part 9: Keyboard and Gamepad Navigation
Techniques for supporting keyboard and gamepad navigation without overburdening builder code.
 • Ryan Fleury
UI, Part 8: State Mutation, Jank, and Hotkeys
Making the case for limiting the timeframe during which important state mutations can occur, making these mutations homogeneous, and how this idea can…
 • Ryan Fleury
UI, Part 10: Simple Single-Line Text Input
Many custom UIs don't implement common keyboard shortcuts in their single-line text fields. It doesn't have to be this way - let's look at a way to…
 • Ryan Fleury
UI, Part 7: Where IMGUI Ends
Exploring strategies for high-level interface instantiation entities (windows, tabs, panels). Making the case for why their state should not be managed…
 • Ryan Fleury
UI, Part 6: Rendering
My techniques for using the GPU to render fancy UIs with not much code.
 • Ryan Fleury
UI, Part 5: Visual Content
Looking into how we might specify visual information—both styling and spacing—in a builder codepath.
 • Ryan Fleury
UI, Part 4: The Widget Is A Lie (Node Composition)
Ditching the idea that a "widget" must be explicitly represented in our user interface hierarchy data structure.
 • Ryan Fleury
UI, Part 3: The Widget Building Language
Details on what I've learned about building an adequate core widget hierarchy construction API.
 • Ryan Fleury
UI, Part 2: Every Single Frame (IMGUI)
Introduces the concept and structure of an "immediate mode user interface" and how we can use it to accomplish our goals, including strategies for…
 • Ryan Fleury
UI, Part 1: The Interaction Medium
Introducing a set of concepts, principles, goals, and ideas that have dramatically improved my ability to write production-quality user interfaces from…
 • Ryan Fleury
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