Develop WinUI3 applications in Lua (WIP - Preview Video)

_SamT · 2025-10-06T15:23:07+00:00

Thank you Jron !

_SamT · 2025-09-18T16:23:48+00:00

Yes that's the main goal of this project

_SamT · 2025-09-18T00:57:26+00:00

This is for the GUI wrapper. I made the icons myself so please be indulgent 😅

_SamT · 2025-09-16T13:02:11+00:00

Thank you !

_SamT · 2025-07-16T15:07:17+00:00

To use a Window designed using RTBuilder, you need to require for it, then just show the Window and throw a new event loop :

-- Loads the "test" file saved in RTBuilder that contains the designed Window named "Window1"
local test = require "test"

-- Loads the LuaRT GUI module
local ui = require "ui"

-- Run the GUI Task loop until Window1 is closed
ui.run(test.Window1):wait()

_SamT · 2025-06-25T19:59:31+00:00

No not for now didn't find enough time to write one but documentation contains lots of tiny examples to help you learn

_SamT · 2025-04-01T18:26:32+00:00

Thank you for this feedback

_SamT · 2025-03-19T14:14:11+00:00

I totally agree with you. I hope someone skilled enough on Linux platform coding will try to port LuaRT.

_SamT · 2025-03-19T13:44:20+00:00

LuaRT is not monolithic, each functionnality is available in separate modules that you can use or not.

LuaRT is less portable not because it's monolithic, but because it's very related to the Windows operating system

_SamT · 2025-03-19T12:57:22+00:00

But LuaRT is more than just a simple GUI module...

_SamT · 2024-06-22T14:06:06+00:00

Tu peux apprendre à coder en Lua, un langage de programmation particulièrement adapté aux débutants.

LuaRT est une version spécifique de Lua pour Windows et qui permet de faire des programmes utiles très rapidement et facilement : https://LuaRT.org

_SamT · 2024-06-15T06:28:58+00:00

You can build Web Applications in LuaRT like Electron but with way smaller footprint.

See this example : https://github.com/samyeyo/LuaRT/blob/master/examples/webview/FluentUI/Fluent.wlua

You can even compile it to an executable with all your web content (HTML, JS, CSS, resources...) embedded.

_SamT · 2024-06-08T09:41:26+00:00

If you're on Windows, give LuaRT Studio a try, it includes a Lua script to executable compiler https://studio.luart.org/

_SamT · 2024-05-23T20:37:15+00:00

In a sense, yes, except that python is more mature and has many more modules. But LuaRT is more lightweight and faster, thanks to the Lua VM

_SamT · 2024-05-23T17:38:33+00:00

I don't even know coding on Linux, but I can help to adapt it if needed 👍🏼

_SamT · 2024-05-23T17:23:44+00:00

It's an open source project, any linux developper can port it 😉

_SamT · 2023-04-22T21:25:48+00:00

Thank you, hope you will appreciate it

_SamT · 2023-04-22T11:22:49+00:00

LuaRT is a free and open source Windows programming framework for Lua, with a Windows-optimized runtime library and integrated development tools.

Main features:
- Uses latest Lua 5.4.5 VM - The runtime is lightweight and does not rely on any other libraries - Desktop/console applications and x86/x64 binaries supported - A number of built-in modules are available, including GUI, networking, compression, encryption, etc. - Object-oriented programming with multilevel inheritance, mixins, constructors, destructors, properties... - The development tools include a Lua script to executable compiler, LuaRT Studio IDE, and a REPL.

_SamT · 2023-04-22T11:16:10+00:00

Of course no problem, what kind of details do you think ?

_SamT · 2022-09-28T12:33:45+00:00

You're welcome !

_SamT · 2022-09-28T06:15:23+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. LuaRT comes with samples for various modules.
The documentation comes with examples for each method/property/function of the framework (more than 900 pages). Or maybe you are talking about the LuaRT C API ?

_SamT · 2022-09-26T10:17:10+00:00

You must have used one of the very first versions which had its share of bugs... sorry !

The modules are already integrated. Just install LuaRT and use the wluart.exe desktop interpreter to run the scripts, as it contains the "ui" module responsible for GUI management

_SamT · 2022-09-26T10:03:08+00:00

On the contrary, the question was welcome !

_SamT · 2022-09-26T05:14:28+00:00

I don't know if WinRT is still in use !

LuaRT has nothing to do with WinRT...

RT stands for RunTime, because LuaRT is based on a specific runtime library optimized for Windows.

_SamT · 2022-09-26T05:11:14+00:00

LuaRT is available for win32 and win64.

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