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Dear ImGui backend for use with SFML
https://github.com/eliasdaler/imgui-sfml

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ImGui-SFML

==========



Library which allows you to use [Dear ImGui](https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) with [SFML](https://github.com/SFML/SFML)



![screenshot](https://i2.wp.com/i.imgur.com/iQibpSk.gif)



Based on [this repository](https://github.com/Mischa-Alff/imgui-backends) with big improvements and changes.



State of Development

-----



-   The [`master`](https://github.com/SFML/imgui-sfml/tree/master) branch contains work in progress supporting SFML 3. The SFML 3 API is not stable so this branch is not stable either.

-   The [`2.6.x`](https://github.com/SFML/imgui-sfml/tree/2.6.x) branch contains work targeting SFML 2 and is thus stable.



Dependencies

-----



* [SFML](https://github.com/SFML/SFML) >= 3.0.0

* [Dear ImGui](https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) >= 1.89



Contributing

-----



* The code is written in C++17 (SFML 3 uses C++17, Dear ImGui has started using C++11 since 2022)

* The code should be formatted via [ClangFormat](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html) using `.clang-format` provided in the root of this repository



How-to

----



- [**CMake tutorial which also shows how to use ImGui-SFML with FetchContent**](https://edw.is/using-cmake/)

- [**Example project which sets up ImGui-SFML with FetchContent**](https://github.com/eliasdaler/cmake-fetchcontent-tutorial-code)

- [**Detailed tutorial on Elias Daler's blog**](https://edw.is/using-imgui-with-sfml-pt1)

- [**Using ImGui with modern C++ and STL**](https://edw.is/using-imgui-with-sfml-pt2/)

- [**Thread on SFML forums**](https://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=20137.0). Feel free to ask your questions there.



Building and integrating into your CMake project

---

It's highly recommended to use FetchContent or git submodules to get SFML and Dear ImGui into your build.



See [this file](https://github.com/eliasdaler/imgui-sfml-fetchcontent/blob/master/dependencies/CMakeLists.txt) - if you do something similar, you can then just link to ImGui-SFML as simply as:



```cmake

target_link_libraries(game

  PUBLIC

    ImGui-SFML::ImGui-SFML

)

```



Integrating into your project manually

---

- Download [ImGui](https://github.com/ocornut/imgui)

- Add Dear ImGui folder to your include directories

- Add `imgui.cpp`, `imgui_widgets.cpp`, `imgui_draw.cpp` and `imgui_tables.cpp` to your build/project

- Copy the contents of `imconfig-SFML.h` to your `imconfig.h` file. (to be able to cast `ImVec2` to `sf::Vector2f` and vice versa)

- Add a folder which contains `imgui-SFML.h` to your include directories

- Add `imgui-SFML.cpp` to your build/project

- Link OpenGL if you get linking errors



Other ways to add to your project

---

Not recommended, as they're not maintained officially. Tend to lag behind and stay on older versions.



- [Conan](https://github.com/bincrafters/community/tree/main/recipes/imgui-sfml)

- [vcpkg](https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/tree/master/ports/imgui-sfml)

- [Bazel](https://github.com/zpervan/ImguiSFMLBazel)



Using ImGui-SFML in your code

---



- Call `ImGui::SFML::Init` and pass your `sf::Window` + `sf::RenderTarget` or `sf::RenderWindow` there. You can create your font atlas and pass the pointer in Init too, otherwise the default internal font atlas will be created for you. Do this for each window you want to draw ImGui on.

- For each iteration of a game loop:

    - Poll and process events:



        ```cpp

        while (const auto event = window.pollEvent()) {

            ImGui::SFML::ProcessEvent(window, event);

            ...

        }

        ```



    - Call `ImGui::SFML::Update(window, deltaTime)` where `deltaTime` is `sf::Time`. You can also pass `mousePosition` and `displaySize` yourself instead of passing the window.

    - Call ImGui functions (`ImGui::Begin()`, `ImGui::Button()`, etc.)

    - Call `ImGui::EndFrame` after the last `ImGui::End` in your update function, if you update more than once before rendering. (e.g. fixed delta game loops)

    - Call `ImGui::SFML::Render(window)`



- Call `ImGui::SFML::Shutdown()` **after** `window.close()` has been called

    - Use `ImGui::SFML::Shutdown(window)` overload if you have multiple windows. After it's called one of the current windows will become a current "global" window. Call `SetCurrentWindow` to explicitly set which window will be used as default.



**If you only draw ImGui widgets without any SFML stuff, then you'll might need to call window.resetGLStates() before rendering anything. You only need to do it once.**



Example code

----



See example file [here](https://github.com/SFML/imgui-sfml/blob/master/examples/minimal/main.cpp)



```cpp

#include "imgui.h"

#include "imgui-SFML.h"



#include 

#include 

#include 

#include 



int main() {

    sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode({640, 480}), "ImGui + SFML = <3");

    window.setFramerateLimit(60);

    ImGui::SFML::Init(window);



    sf::CircleShape shape(100.f);

    shape.setFillColor(sf::Color::Green);



    sf::Clock deltaClock;

    while (window.isOpen()) {

        while (const auto event = window.pollEvent()) {

            ImGui::SFML::ProcessEvent(window, *event);



            if (event->is()) {

                window.close();

            }

        }



        ImGui::SFML::Update(window, deltaClock.restart());



        ImGui::ShowDemoWindow();



        ImGui::Begin("Hello, world!");

        ImGui::Button("Look at this pretty button");

        ImGui::End();



        window.clear();

        window.draw(shape);

        ImGui::SFML::Render(window);

        window.display();

    }



    ImGui::SFML::Shutdown();

}

```



Fonts how-to

---



Default font is loaded if you don't pass `false` in `ImGui::SFML::Init`. Call `ImGui::SFML::Init(window, false);` if you don't want default font to be loaded.



* Load your fonts like this:



```cpp

IO.Fonts->Clear(); // clear fonts if you loaded some before (even if only default one was loaded)

// IO.Fonts->AddFontDefault(); // this will load default font as well

IO.Fonts->AddFontFromFileTTF("font1.ttf", 8.f);

IO.Fonts->AddFontFromFileTTF("font2.ttf", 12.f);



ImGui::SFML::UpdateFontTexture(); // important call: updates font texture

```



* And use them like this:



```cpp

ImGui::PushFont(ImGui::GetIO().Fonts->Fonts[0]);

ImGui::Button("Look at this pretty button");

ImGui::PopFont();



ImGui::PushFont(ImGui::GetIO().Fonts->Fonts[1]);

ImGui::TextUnformatted("IT WORKS!");

ImGui::PopFont();

```



The first loaded font is treated as the default one and doesn't need to be pushed with `ImGui::PushFont`.



Multiple windows

----------------



See `examples/multiple_windows` to see how you can create multiple SFML and run different ImGui contexts in them.



- Don't forget to run `ImGui::SFML::Init(const sf::Window&)` for each window you create. Same goes for `ImGui::SFML::Shutdown(const sf::Window&)`

- Instead of calling `ImGui::SFML::ProcessEvent(sf::Event&)`, you need to call `ImGui::SFML::ProcessEvent(const sf::Window&, const sf::Event&)` overload for each window you create

- Call `ImGui::SFML::SetCurrentWindow` before calling any `ImGui` functions (e.g. `ImGui::Begin`, `ImGui::Button` etc.)

- Either call `ImGui::Render(sf::RenderWindow&)` overload for each window or manually do this:

    ```cpp

    SetCurrentWindow(window);

    ... // your custom rendering

    ImGui::Render();



    SetCurrentWindow(window2);

    ... // your custom rendering

    ImGui::Render();

    ```

- When closing everything: don't forget to close all windows using SFML's `sf::Window::Close` and then call `ImGui::SFML::Shutdown` to remote all ImGui-SFML window contexts and other data.



SFML related ImGui overloads / new widgets

---



There are some useful overloads implemented for SFML objects (see `imgui-SFML.h` for other overloads):



```cpp

ImGui::Image(const sf::Sprite& sprite);

ImGui::Image(const sf::Texture& texture);

ImGui::Image(const sf::RenderTexture& texture);



ImGui::ImageButton(const sf::Sprite& sprite);

ImGui::ImageButton(const sf::Texture& texture);

ImGui::ImageButton(const sf::RenderTexture& texture);

```



A note about sf::RenderTexture

---



`sf::RenderTexture`'s texture is stored with pixels flipped upside down. To display it properly when drawing `ImGui::Image` or `ImGui::ImageButton`, use overloads for `sf::RenderTexture`:



```cpp

sf::RenderTexture texture;

sf::Sprite sprite(texture.getTexture());

ImGui::Image(texture);              // OK

ImGui::Image(sprite);               // NOT OK

ImGui::Image(texture.getTexture()); // NOT OK

```



If you want to draw only a part of `sf::RenderTexture` and you're trying to use `sf::Sprite` the texture will be displayed upside-down. To prevent this, you can do this:



```cpp

// make a normal sf::Texture from sf::RenderTexture's flipped texture

sf::Texture texture(renderTexture.getTexture());



sf::Sprite sprite(texture);

ImGui::Image(sprite); // the texture is displayed properly

```



For more notes see [this issue](https://github.com/SFML/imgui-sfml/issues/35).



Mouse cursors

---

You can change your cursors in ImGui like this:



```cpp

ImGui::SetMouseCursor(ImGuiMouseCursor_TextInput);

```



By default, your system cursor will change and will be rendered by your system. If you want SFML to draw your cursor with default ImGui cursors (the system cursor will be hidden), do this:



```cpp

ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();

io.MouseDrawCursor = true;

```



Keyboard/Gamepad navigation

---

Starting with [ImGui 1.60](https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/releases/tag/v1.60), there's a feature to control ImGui with keyboard and gamepad. To use keyboard navigation, you just need to do this:



```cpp

ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();

io.ConfigFlags |= ImGuiConfigFlags_NavEnableKeyboard;

```



Gamepad navigation requires more work, unless you have XInput gamepad, in which case the mapping is automatically set for you. But you can still set it up for your own gamepad easily, just take a look how it's done for the default mapping [here](https://github.com/SFML/imgui-sfml/blob/navigation/imgui-SFML.cpp#L697). And then you need to do this:



```cpp

ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();

io.ConfigFlags |= ImGuiConfigFlags_NavEnableGamepad;

```

By default, the first active joystick is used for navigation, but you can set joystick id explicitly like this:

```cpp

ImGui::SFML::SetActiveJoystickId(5);

```



High DPI screens

----



As SFML is not currently DPI aware, your GUI may show at the incorrect scale. This is particularly noticeable on systems with "Retina" / "4K" / "UHD" displays.



To work around this on macOS, you can create an app bundle (as opposed to just the exe) then modify the info.plist so that "High Resolution Capable" is set to "NO".



Another option to help ameliorate this, at least for getting started and for the common ImGui use-case of "developer/debug/building UI", is to explore `FontGlobalScale`:



```cpp

ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();

io.FontGlobalScale = 2.0; // or any other value hardcoded or loaded from your config logic

```



License

---



This library is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE for more information.