# minigui-docs

**Repository Path**: vincentwei7/minigui-docs

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: minigui-docs
- **Description**: Documents for MiniGUI Core and MiniGUI Components.
- **Primary Language**: C
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

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- **Created**: 2024-05-24
- **Last Updated**: 2025-06-26

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## README

# MiniGUI Documents

We maintains the documents for MiniGUI Core and MiniGUI components in this repository.

MiniGUI aims to provide a fast, stable, full-featured, and cross-platform windowing and GUI support system,
        which is especially fit for embedded systems or smart IoT devices based-on Linux/uClinux, eCos,
        and other traditional RTOSes, such as RT-Thread, FreeRTOS, RTEMS, VxWorks, ThreadX, Nucleus, pSOS, uC/OS-II, OSE, and others.

This is the source tree of MiniGUI Core, which provides the windowing and graphics interfaces as well as a lot of standard controls (toolkit).

MiniGUI is released under GPLv3 and the dual-licensing applies to commercial use.
In December 1998, the initiator of FMSoft, [Vincent Wei], began to develop MiniGUI under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
In September 2002, the core developers of MiniGUI founded [FMSoft] and started the commercial marketing with the free software.
By now, FMSoft still continues to release MiniGUI as a free software project.

For the live demos, source tarballs, and cases of MiniGUI, you can refer to the following website:

<http://www.minigui.com>

## Current Status

We have cleaned up the following documents:

- MiniGUI User Manual
- MiniGUI Programming Guide
- MiniGUI Supplementary Documents

## ChangeLog

- 2025-06-30  
  Update for MiniGUI version 5.0.16.  
  Tune the structure for GitBook.
- 2020-03-30  
  Links for MiniGUI API references of 5.0.0/4.0.7; Drafts of supplementary documents for MiniGUI 5.0.0.
- 2019-12-25  
  Draft of [Integrating with GPU](/programming-guide/MiniGUIProgGuidePart3Chapter05.md)
- 2019-12-24  
  Tune for MiniGUI version 4.0.4.
- 2019-10-30  
  MiniGUI Programming Guide is ready.
- 2019-10-27  
  MiniGUI Supplementary Documents is ready.
- 2019-10-24  
  MiniGUI User Manual is ready.

## Links to Repositories

* [MiniGUI Core](https://github.com/VincentWei/minigui)
* [mGUtils](https://github.com/VincentWei/mgutils)
* [mGPlus](https://github.com/VincentWei/mgplus)
* [mGEff](https://github.com/VincentWei/mgeff)
* [mGNCS](https://github.com/VincentWei/mgncs)
* [mGNCS4Touch](https://github.com/VincentWei/mgncs4touch)
* [MiniGUI Demos](https://github.com/VincentWei/minigui-demos)

## 针对中文用户

很多中文开发者希望有中文文档。以前我们的确维护有中英文两个版本，但文档的维护工作量实在很大，
所以从 MiniGUI 3.2 版本开始，我们选择优先维护英文版本，中文版本就不再维护了。
这主要出于如下几个方面的因素考虑：

- 作为一个面向全球的开源软件，要服务所有国家或地区的开发者，英语是目前最好的语言。
- 使用英文，可以避免一些由于术语翻译不准确而导致的问题，对开发者理解工作原理会更有帮助。
- MiniGUI 各文档中使用的英文，不论是词汇还是语法，都相对简单，有一定基础的开发者都可以顺利阅读和理解。
- 现有基于大语言模型的翻译工具，已经能够替代人类完成技术文档的翻译工作。

另外，我们以前撰写的中文文档，仍保留在老的 MiniGUI Wiki 站点上，供参考：

<http://wiki.minigui.com/twiki/bin/view/Products/WebHome>

## Copying

Copyright © 2003 \~ 2025, [Beijing FMSoft Technologies Co., Ltd.](https://www.fmsoft.cn)  
All rights reserved.