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The open_as_if_parented method was intended to support the use case of Audio Unit plugin views. However, the Audio Unit API differs in important ways from other plugin APIs (such as VST 3 and CLAP) with regard to the lifetime management of the plugin's NSView, and trying to support both lifetime management patterns simultaneously has been the source of complexity and bugs. Thus, rather than implementing Audio Unit NSView management directly in Baseview, it will be the responsibility of plugin frameworks to implement a compatibility layer between the Audio Unit API and the Baseview API. |
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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
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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 |
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Spawns a window, no parent | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Cross-platform API for window spawning | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Can find DPI scale factor | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Basic event handling (mouse, keyboard) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Parent window support | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
OpenGL context creation (behind the opengl feature) |
✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
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.