For a UI toolkit, they don't seem to parade all that many screenshots (or maybe I didn't find the right page). All the examples shown are from audio software with pixel-precise design.<p>Fancy gradients, photorealistic knobs and tiny text labels are certainly the right choice for this type of applications (it's actually pretty interesting how certain software niches have instantly recognizable signature looks which all the vendors within that space share as if bound by an unspoken agreement). But I'd also like to know whether Nui can handle flexible layouts, long text paragraphs, user font preferences, accessibility concerns, tabbing between controls, etc.<p>In a way, Nui seems like an "anti-GTK+", in the sense that GTK+ tends to look very plain and can be difficult to customise for pixel-perfect layouts, but does fairly comprehensively handle all the boring usability and layout automatisation stuff.
While the (few) screenshots look beautiful, it's hard to find... well... anything on their site. I've been unable to find any detailed API information in their documentation section (although it appears to be a WIP).
I'm very intrigued, and I hope to see more from this. I really like the licensing set up on this too, more libraries should do something like this (it's not a crime to ask for money if you're making money using someone's library).<p>It would be nice if this eventually grew to add a drag and drop gui creator. As a programmer/artist who hates boring interfaces, count me interested.
I downloaded the demo application and it instantly crashed upon loading with:<p>"Unexpected problem detected in the program 'nuiDemo.exe'"<p>If your demo application crashes, you're not ready for primetime.