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?)