what is the framework using in Blender GUI?

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What is the framework using in Blender GUI? QT? Or Tk, GTK+, FOX toolkit, wxWidgets? Because Blender is cross-platform application.

Also note that if you ask because you want to add some dialog you can use bgui for that: http://code.google.com/p/bgui/wiki/Gallery — ntg, Jul 04 '13 at 17:32
While Blender UI is not separable from Blender itself and thus not usable in your own project, you might be interested by https://github.com/zhanggyb/BlendInt which is a GUI library designed with Blender UI as main inspiration — Jecimi, Jun 09 '15 at 23:19

score 68 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '10 at 12:41

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Blender uses OpenGL to draw all of its user interface. (Personally I'm a fan!)

answered Jun 25 '10 at 12:41

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And there is no library for that GUI widgets, which could be used in other projects too? – Karl Zeilhofer Apr 30 '19 at 16:40
Correct, @KarlZeilhofer. See this thread for confirmation https://devtalk.blender.org/t/using-the-node-editor-in-a-private-project/8103 – Bronzdragon Aug 24 '22 at 20:14

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 26 '12 at 07:35

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Blender's interface is entirely custom

answered Nov 26 '12 at 07:35

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score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 25 '10 at 12:40

None of those, apparently. I come to this conclusion from the fact that the Debian-packaged Blender doesn't depend on any GUI toolkit, and based on the threads at the Blender forum here and here. Note the phrase in the second thread:

There is probably zero (or at least quite little) chance of QT or GTK or any other rather heavy gui toolkit being used with Blender.

what is the framework using in Blender GUI?

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