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https://github.com/RustAudio/baseview

low-level window system interface for audio plugin UIs
https://github.com/RustAudio/baseview

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low-level window system interface for audio plugin UIs

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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: |
| OpenGL context creation (behind the `opengl` feature) | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |

## Prerequisites

### Linux

Install dependencies, e.g.:

```sh
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxcb1-dev libx11-xcb-dev libgl1-mesa-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.