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From your first window to a desktop app.

11 written lessons and 5 downloadable projects. Follow the path or jump to the task you need.

Settings application from the course

HTML / CSS · C++ · Lua

Settings, libraries and notes.

Start with layout, input, validation and saving, then build Lua interactions, virtual lists, title bars and notes preview. Every lesson lists prerequisites and acceptance actions.

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Written instructions, source and screenshots are available. Videos will follow.

Foundations: window to delivery

01

Installation and a first window

Run and edit a native window

02

Build a settings page

Build a settings page for wide and narrow windows

03

Read, validate and save a form

Read current values, validate, save and restore

04

Debug the settings page

Locate a real layout or event problem

05

Build and package the settings app

Produce a copied folder that launches independently

06

Modify a KUI project with an agent

Have an agent implement a verifiable small change

Interaction and data

07

Build UI interactions with Lua

A Lua-driven asset-library inspector

08

Build a virtual-list workspace

A 10,000-record workspace with scrolling and navigation

Desktop apps and verification

09

Build a desktop app with a title bar

Two desktop UI styles with real native window controls

10

Editing, preview and text safety

Understand editing, limited Markdown and safe preview

11

Build regression checks for settings

Repeatable acceptance steps and model tests

Course projects

Downloads contain project source, not the engine. Building requires the SDK.

First WindowZIP ↓Settings LabZIP ↓Lua LabZIP ↓Forge WorkspaceZIP ↓Forge Files / NotesZIP ↓