nGui provides a limited set of functionality, but benefits from its use of native
controls within each operating system, providing powerful functionality while requiring minimal
resources both in terms of module file size and runtime memory. The haXe class framework for this
library has been developed to be simple and intuitive to use, so it presents a great prototyping platform.
At the time of writing this book, this library provides binary ndll s for Windows only, though the project
is also compilable for Linux and Mac OSX, should you know how.
hxGtk
Finally, you have the hxGtk library developed by Ritchie Turner (aka Blackdog) of iPowerHouse.com .
This is probably the most complete of any of the available GUI libraries for Neko, with the exception of
ScreenWeaver HX. hxGtk provides bindings to the GTK framework, normally associated with Linux, but
is available on all operating systems supported by Neko. Unfortunately, GTK does have a file size issue
on the Windows platform, as the dynamic libraries required for the GTK distribution to work can raise
an application ??™ s file size by nearly 15MB.
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