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Jorvik_Part6.mp4

Jorvik, Part 6.  This week I focused on abstracting my graph renderer to make it graphics API independent, drawing it into an offscreen surface, and incorporating it into an ImGui window with pan and scale options.

<@UC2A2ARPT> It refers to where I live, in York.   I have no idea if this is the final name - haven't decided.  It is pronounced with a 'Y'  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_York>

<@U013HU44GLS> I like nanovg a lot, but I'm only using it instead of ImGui because it has the gradient fills I use, which I think helps lift the UI off the screen a little.  Now I'm abstracted, it won't be hard to try other approaches.

The downside is it only supports GL and D3D9 (a backend I contributed a long time ago).  ImGui might be more sensible long term.

I haven't looked at imGui for a couple of years so it may have improved since. But I selected nanovg because it was plain C and the implementation was a lot cleaner than imGui

ImGui is pretty amazing these days; especially with the new Docking stuff.  But it wasn't long ago I looked, and there was no gradient fill.