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I'm wondering what options are available for in-game interface libraries (not OS-level interfaces) and what are your opinions about them?

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possible duplicate of What C++ GUI library can you suggest? – Tetrad♦ Jul 22 '10 at 6:03
When I started this question the other question about gui has only OS-level gui libraries answers. – Fire Jul 22 '10 at 17:27

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The OGRE3d engine uses CEGUI (http://www.cegui.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page). It's FOSS, supports scripting from lua, predefined layouts can be created in XML, supports most of the basic widgets you would need (http://cegui.org.uk/docs/current/fal_baseclass_ref.html). You can also find lots of UI demos using CEGUI on youtube.

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I really wish there was a CEGUI lite. The library is so heavy, and uses some real heavy 3rd party stuff as well, xerces etc. Not to mention it's obsessed with dynamic loading everything. – deft_code Jul 22 '10 at 6:04
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I've been meaning to try out libRocket (http://librocket.com/), though I haven't done so yet. Seems, it allows to lay out the interface using a subset of HTML + CSS, which could be pretty efficient.

It's free for download (and comes with source), but as far as I know they use a custom licence, so not sure about what possible caveats there might be.

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libRocket has recently gone fully open source under the MIT license with no licensing fees. – lloydw Sep 20 '10 at 18:12

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