picoview

Smol low-level windowing abstraction with a focus on audio plugin development

Warning

This project is currently in development and the API is not final! Please do not rely on picoview in production. MacOS backend is still broken!

Goals

• Small API surface
  • picoview should be easy to use and provide only the essentials for window creation, event handling and OS abstraction.
• Low compile times
  • picoview should compile fast and not bloat your compile times. Uses minimum amount of dependencies.
• Complete OS abstraction
  • picoview should behave the same on all supported platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux).
  • This includes abstracting away OS-dependent pixel scaling and only dealing with physical pixels. picoview provides a WindowScale event, which is treated as a hint more than anything else.
• Audio plugin focused
  • picoview should be suitable for audio plugin development. This means it should be possible to hook into an existing event loop provided by a plugin host.

See ROADMAP.md for more info.

Prerequisites

Linux

Install dependencies, e.g.:

sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxrandr-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 picoview by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.