GUI for software, not games, but lighter than Qt ?

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Dear ImGui

Dear Imgui is a kind of interesting project, although its release engineering is a bit lacking. Seems like you're intended to just copy the .cpp and .h files into your own project. It does seem to be pretty lightweight and flexible, though.

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JUCE

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Photon Micro GUI

If you don't want to use Qt I honestly think your best bet may be to become an early adopter of cycfi elements depending on your project. Elements is still rough but is useable for small applications. I think when it is finished it will be the best choice for a retained mode GUI library, but right now it is missing a lot of things (e.g. The standard common dialogs, "open", "Save as", etc.) , and has basically zero documentation.

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Ultimate++

I've recently mentioned Ultimate++, if you want something application-oriented, portable, and lightweight. And on Windows, it even comes with its own compiler so you can just unpack and run it. But if you happen to have closed-source binary libraries for a specific compiler (such as MSVC, as is common on Windows) than you need consume, the IDE included with Ultimate++ can work with your own compiler, too. Because all the code is distributed in source, it will get compiled using whatever compiler you tell it to use (so Ultimate++ is also much smaller to distribute than binaries distributed for Qt, even for a single platform).

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