NWindows 0.1.0

NWindows

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NWindows is a cross-platform window creation and management library for .NET.

NWindows is aimed to provide all the infrastructure to manipulate a Window in a cross-platform manner and to interact with the input.

It is primarily meant to be used to create higher level applications (games, multimedia apps) or UI Frameworks.

NOTICE: The first version is only supporting the Windows 10+ platform. Help wanted for other platforms! 🤗

Features

• Very lightweight with zero-dependencies .NET 7+ library.
• GC friendly (Zero allocation for the events).
• NativeAOT support (including the "reflection free mode")
  • You can create a small app under 1.5 MB.
• Create top-level and popup windows.
  • Support for border-less windows.
  • Support for OS theme sync.
• Input support: keyboard, mouse + cursor, text.
• DPI aware and sync with OS changes.
• Clipboard and Drag&Drop support.
• FullScreen mode support.
• Many modifiable properties with events
  • Size, position, visibility, maximize/minimum size, icon, resize-able, minimize-able, maximize-able, top-most, opacity, modal...
• Screen properties.
• Dispatcher threading infrastructure built-in to handle System and Window messages (similar to WPF Dispatcher)
• Timer support

Getting started

using NWindows;
using NWindows.Threading;
using System.Drawing;

var mainWindow = Window.Create(new()
{
    Title = "Hello World",
    StartPosition = WindowStartPosition.CenterScreen,
    BackgroundColor = WindowSettings.Theme == WindowTheme.Light
        ? Color.FromArgb(245, 245, 245)
        : Color.FromArgb(30, 30, 30)
});

Dispatcher.Current.Run();

will create the following window on Windows:

You will find more examples in the sample folder.

Install

NWindows is provided as a NuGet package.

User Guide

For more details on how to use NWindows, please visit the user guide.

License

This software is released under the BSD-2-Clause license.

Author

Alexandre Mutel aka xoofx.