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* Added mouse capture/release to windows backend * Mouse capture now automatic only Removed manual ability to trigger mouse capture and release. * Added refcount for mouse button event Added refcount to prevent the mouse capture from releasing before all mouse buttons have been released. * Removed unnecessary function from window |
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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, 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 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Cross-platform API for window spawning | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Window uses an OpenGL surface | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Can find DPI scale factor | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Basic event handling (mouse, keyboard) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Parent window support | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Send messages | ✔️ | ||
| (Converge on a common API for all platforms?) |
Prerequisites
Linux
Install dependencies, e.g.,
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libx11-xcb-dev
License
Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license 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.