Make it render

This is a Zig library for cross-platform window handling and basic rendering, without any dependencies.

It is an experimental project with constant changes.

What is this

• Glue code and abstraction between X11, Windows and MacOS(soon?) window and input handling
• Support window management, input events and rendering
• It only uses C when linking to win32 required libraries
• Produces small binaries, relatively fast
• Render text
• No dependencies

What this is not

• It is not a GUI library or game engine
• It does not use GPU (no opengl nor vulkan)
• It does not support mobile (no Android nor iOS)

Structure

Each module is independent, should be usable, and them there some "glue" modules to make it all work.

• anywindow: Window handling abstraction
  • macos
  • x11
  • windows
• textz: Read fonts, get glyphs, work with unicode
  • fonts: embed unifont and terminus
  • bdf: BDF parsing
• glue.zig: Joins everything

Work in progress

Notably missing:

• Fix differences in mouse position and keys between windows and linux
• Fullscreen windows and back
• Image drawing, like from PNGs or other image formats
• Wayland support
• MacOS support
• Respect desktop scaling

Usage

To do.

See [src/demo.zig] for an example.

License

MIT