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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.
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: |
| Can find DPI scale factor | | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
| Basic event handling (mouse, keyboard) | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
| Parent window support | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
## Prerequisites
### Linux
Install dependencies, e.g.,
```sh
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libx11-xcb-dev
```
## License
Licensed under either of <a href="LICENSE-APACHE">Apache License, Version
2.0</a> or <a href="LICENSE-MIT">MIT license</a> at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in Baseview by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.