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# baseview
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A low-level windowing system geared towards making audio plugin UIs.
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`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 `#plugin-gui`.
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## Roadmap
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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 |
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| ----------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------ | ------------------ |
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| Spawns a window, no parent | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
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| Cross-platform API for window spawning | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
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| Can find DPI scale factor | | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
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| Basic event handling (mouse, keyboard) | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
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| Parent window support | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
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| OpenGL context creation (behind the `opengl` feature) | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
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## Prerequisites
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### Linux
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Install dependencies, e.g.:
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```sh
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sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxcb1-dev libx11-xcb-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
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```
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## License
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Licensed under either of <a href="LICENSE-APACHE">Apache License, Version
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2.0</a> or <a href="LICENSE-MIT">MIT license</a> at your option.
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Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
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for inclusion in Baseview by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
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dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
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