Pugl

Pugl is a minimal portability layer for embeddable GUIs. It provides a drawing context and event-based main loop API, which can be used to create graphical applications or embedded views.

Pugl is particularly suitable for plugins, since it has no implicit context or mutable static data, and can be statically linked. The “core” library implements platform support, and depends only on standard system libraries. MacOS, Windows, and X11 are currently supported.

Graphics backends are built as separate libraries, so applications depend only on the APIs that they use. Pugl includes graphics backends for Cairo, OpenGL, and Vulkan. Other graphics APIs can be used by implementing a custom backend.

• Usage
  • Using an Installed Version
  • Using a Meson Subproject
  • Vendoring Manually
• Overview
  • Creating a World
    • Construction
    • Setting Application Data
  • Creating a View
    • Configuring the Frame
    • Embedding
    • Setting an Event Handler
    • Setting View Data
    • Setting a Backend
      • Using Cairo
      • Using OpenGL
      • Using Vulkan
        • Loading Vulkan
        • Linking with Vulkan
        • Creating a Surface
    • Showing the View
  • Handling Events
    • Using the Graphics Context
      • Drawing
      • Cairo Context
      • OpenGL Context
      • Vulkan Context
  • Driving the Event Loop
    • Redrawing
    • Event Dispatching
      • MacOS
      • Windows
      • X11
    • Recursive Event Loops
  • Using Clipboards
    • Copying
    • Pasting
    • Receiving Data
  • Shutting Down
• Pugl C API
  • Cairo
  • OpenGL
  • Geometry Types
  • Events
    • Management Events
    • Update Events
    • Keyboard Events
    • Pointer Events
    • Custom Events
    • Clipboard Events
  • Status
  • World
  • View
    • Setup
    • Frame
    • Window
    • Graphics
    • Interaction
  • Stub
  • Vulkan