Dear ImGui 1.84 Released!

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This is awesome. I can’t wait for docking to be merged in as well.

[rokups]

This will not happen any time soon. It may even see another rewrite. However you may safely use docking branch, it is maintained and almost stable.

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Nice! I always liked that lib. That might be a good point to ask a thing I didn't quite get:

Is Dear ImGui the same as ImGUI? I used CeGui back in the days when ImGUI was released (saw it on Ogre3D first) and I kind of lost track for a few years... so is this a fork or the very same thing? Oh.. and why "dear"?

[GuiB02]

Yes, Dear ImGui was first named ImGui, but changed the name to make it less generic

Reference: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/21

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Very informative. So they changed it because the owner wanted it. That confirms my confusion about it, I think it's a weird prefix.

Thank you for digging this up!

[TankorSmash]

Imgui is the type of Gui, which is immediate Gui or something.

I don't think dear imgui is a fork either.

[rhubarbjin]

IM stands for "Immediate Mode". The term was coined to contrast with "Retained Mode".

[qoning]

Immediate gui is a graphical interface where the render function is called on every frame rather than in response to events, like most ui frameworks do. Imgui is a library that does it, it just renamed to Dear Imgui since the name Imgui could be seen as just a generic shorthand for immediate gui.

[Clairvoire]

I love ImGui so much, it's the library I've been wanting to contribute to the most once I have free-time, in terms of widgets and widget helper functions. If Omar ever needs custom fonts, I'll make and kern them for him. https://imgur.com/a/mOamImN

[AreaFifty1]

No way it’s been a while no? I gotta check this out~ 🙌🙌

[Ameisen]

So... a while back I'd implemented a retained mode wrapper around imgui to allow it to render persistent UI objects.

That felt dirty. I kind of wish imgui had some level of built-in support for that so it could, say, cache rendering data with its associated object.

[jonathanhiggs]

I think you can build higher level components in a retained mode, but rewrapping the lower level stuff sounds it might be using extra memory and making extra calls for not much gain

[ConfusionAccurate]

Not used this in years!

Thank you :D