# README

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](https://github.com/VincentWei/minigui-docs/blob/master/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.


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