# 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.

Interested in learning more about the project? Join us on [discord](https://discord.gg/b3hjnGw), channel `#plugin-gui`.

## Roadmap

Below is a proposed list of milestones (roughly in-order) and their status. Subject to change at any time.

| 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)          |                    |                    | :heavy_check_mark: |
| Parent window support                           |                    |                    |                    |
| *(Converge on a common API for all platforms?)* |                    |                    |                    |