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There is essentially no way to implement modern (ie. what any user expects since Windows 95) UI toolkit as an immediate mode thing. It is not only about drawing stuff on screen and handling mostly mouse events. There are things like keyboard shortcuts, keyboard navigation, clipboard/cutbuffers/selections, automation and accessibility hooks...

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I'm not sure I understand why you think there is no way to do that with an API designed in IMGUI style? IMGUI is a style of exposing UI API. There's no reason this can't be made with a IM-style UI.

You are comparing apple and oranges when comparing the feature set of a small UI system made by 1 person-ish vs something like Qt benefiting from decades of experiences and hundreds of devs.

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