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+=========
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+### Is there a GUI builder planned?
+
+No, NiGui is intended to define your user interface by manually written Nim source code.<br>
+Using a GUI builder is maybe faster at the start of a project, but to modify an existing UI, it faster to change a few lines of code, instead of dragging around a bunch of widgets.
+
+### How big is the generated execute file?
+
+Sizes of "example_01_basic_app":<br>
+Linux x64 binary: 608 kB<br>
+Windows x64 binary: 705 kB
+
+### Does NiGui support customization?
+
+NiGui allows you to use the native controls like buttons, labels, text boxes. Typically the look of native controls can not much changed. For example Windows does not support to change the background color of a button.<br>
+As alternative to native controls, NiGui allows you to use create custom controls. Custom controls must draw their surface by it's own, therefore it can look anything you like. As example: To create a custom button, you can inherit from the type `Button` and override the method `handleDrawEvent()`. <br>
+To make it possible to adjust the look of custom controls to the look of the native controls, NiGui allows you to use the platform's default styles, for example `app.defaultBackgroundColor` and `app.defaultTextColor`.
+
+### How does NiGui compare to other GUI toolkits?
+
+*Please add your knowlege here if you know more.*
+
+#### NiGui compared to Gtk
+
+Gtk is a popular cross-platform GUI toolkit written in C.<br>
+Gtk uses native widgets partly.<br>
+Unlike to NiGui, under Windows the user has to install Gtk or you ship the DLL files with your application.<br>
+The Gtk 2 DLL files for Windows takes about 30 MB.<br>
+Under the desktop Linux distributions, Gtk 2 and 3 are usually preinstalled.<br>
+NiGui uses Gtk 3 as backend under Linux.<br>
+
+#### NiGui compared to Qt
+
+Qt is a popular cross-platform GUI toolkit written in C++.<br>
+It uses a preprocessor for the C++ code, therefore it cannot be used with other programming languages like C or Nim.
+
+#### NiGui compared to wxWidgets
+
+wxWidgets is a cross-platform GUI toolkit written in C++.<br>
+Unlike to NiGui, under Windows the user has to install wxWidgets or you ship the DLL files with your application.<br>
+The wxWidgets DLL files for Windows takes about 20 MB.<br>
+wxWidgets can be used in Nim (https://github.com/Araq/wxnim/).
+
+#### NiGui compared to IUP
+
+IUP is a cross-platform GUI toolkit written in C (http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/).<br>
+Like NiGui, IUP uses Gtk and Win32 as backends.<br>
+IUP can be used in Nim (https://github.com/nim-lang/iup).
+
+#### NiGui compared to libui
+
+libui is a cross-platform GUI toolkit written in C (https://github.com/andlabs/libui).<br>
+Like NiGui, libui uses Gtk and Win32 as backends and uses native controls.<br>
+Like NiGui, libui is in the early development phase (at least no documentation is written).<br>
+libui can be used in Nim (https://github.com/nim-lang/ui).
+
+#### NiGui compared to nimx
+
+nimx is a cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Nim (https://github.com/yglukhov/nimx).<br>
+It uses OpenGL as backend and also works in a web browser.<br>
+There are no native controls.<br>
+Like NiGui, nimx is in the early development phase (at least no documentation is written).
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