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# baseview
A low-level windowing system geared towards making audio plugin UIs.
`baseview` abstracts the platform-specific windowing APIs (winapi, cocoa, xcb) into a platform-independent API, but otherwise gets out of your way so you can write plugin UIs.
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Interested in learning more about the project? Join us on [discord ](https://discord.gg/b3hjnGw ), channel `#vst2-gui` .
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## Roadmap
Below is a proposed list of milestones (roughly in-order) and their status. Subject to change at any time.
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| Feature | Windows | Mac OS | Linux |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------ | ------------------ |
| Spawns a window, no parent | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
| Cross-platform API for window spawning | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
| Window uses an OpenGL surface | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_check_mark: |
| Can find DPI scale factor | | | :heavy_check_mark: |
| Basic event handling (mouse, keyboard) | | | |
| Parent window support | | | |
| *(Converge on a common API for all platforms?)* | | | |
