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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 #vst2-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 | |||
| (Converge on a common API for all platforms?) |