An immediate mode GUI toolkit for Love2D, enabling rapid UI creation for game development tools.
Slab is an immediate mode GUI toolkit designed specifically for the Love2D game framework. It enables developers to quickly create user interfaces for their game development tools and applications with minimal integration effort. The library is written entirely in Lua and leverages the Love2D API, providing a lightweight solution for adding UI components to Love2D projects.
Love2D developers who need to build custom tools, editors, or debug interfaces for their games and want a simple, integrated GUI solution.
Developers choose Slab because it offers a straightforward immediate mode GUI approach tailored for Love2D, eliminating the complexity of traditional retained mode UI systems and allowing for rapid prototyping and iteration.
An immediate mode GUI for the Love2D framework.
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Adds UI with minimal code changes by hooking into standard Love2D callbacks like love.update and love.draw, as demonstrated in the basic usage example requiring only a few lines.
UI state is managed inline in the update loop, reducing boilerplate and making it intuitive for developers familiar with Dear ImGui's paradigm, which simplifies tool creation.
No external dependencies or compiled binaries; the entire library is written in Lua using Love2D API, ensuring easy modification and portability within Love2D projects.
Developers can directly edit the source code to tailor the library to specific needs, supported by the MIT license allowing for unrestricted modifications and extensions.
Focuses on core widgets like windows and text, lacking advanced elements such as tree views, complex sliders, or built-in modal dialogs, which may require custom implementation beyond the basic examples.
Styling options are minimal and handled programmatically; creating visually consistent or branded UIs requires manual graphics work or extensive code adjustments, with no CSS-like system.
The immediate mode approach can lead to redundant processing each frame for complex UIs, which might impact performance in graphics-intensive Love2D games with many dynamic elements.