🌸 Chibi

Tiny, lightweight, and type-safe managed Windows library for lifecycle management and window creation

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⚡ Features

• 💨 Extremly fast and lightweight
  • Made with a single responsibility, spawn a window and manage its lifecycle. From calling Run() to the window being displayed takes on average 170ms
• ✅ Type safe:
  • Fully abstracts away raw User32 P/Invoke calls into type-safe C# abstractions.
• 🎫 Easy event lifecycle:
  • Zero-allocation event system. Every underlying Windows message (WM_*) maps neatly to a dedicated EventDispatcher.
• 🛠️ Developer Comforts
  • Has a safe cross-thread scheduling, low-memory handling indicators via WM_COMPACTING, system theme detection, native taskbar flashing api and a clipboard api.
• 🚫 No AI Slop
  • Purely written by passionete single-brain-celled autistic individual

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🚀 Quick Start

Getting a window up and running requires minimal boilerplate! Here's how to initialize ChibiWindow and hook into events

// Create window classvarwindow=newChibiWindow{Title="Hello! 🌸"};// Hook into the easy event ecosystemwindow.OnWindowCreated.Subscribe(ev =>{Console.WriteLine($"Window successfully spawned with handle: {ev.Handle}");});window.OnKeyDown.Subscribe(ev =>{Console.WriteLine($"Key Pressed: {ev.Key}");if(ev.Key==User32.VK.VK_ESCAPE){window.Dispose();}});window.OnMouseMove.Subscribe(ev =>{Console.WriteLine($"Mouse Moved: {ev.Now.X}, {ev.Now.Y}");});// Bind your custom loop frame logicwindow.OnFrame=()=>{// Your rendering logic here!// If left null, Chibi automatically optimizes CPU cycles via MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx// If you are making more complex program or a game, I recommend not using this and using your own render loop/thread instead};// Run the window (this blocks the execution thread)window.Run(1280,720,WindowFlags.Resizable|WindowFlags.HighPixelDensity);

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📦 Installation

Install via the NuGet Package Manager Console:

Install-Package SynesthesiaDev.Chibi.Core

Or via the .NET CLI:

dotnet add package SynesthesiaDev.Chibi.Core

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ps.. in Chibi.Example is included cool particle sim that I wrote using GDI32 as a test