libxputty

A damn tiny abstraction Layer to create X11 window/widgets with cairo surfaces

This repository contain only the library files to allow easily and lightweight embedding into other projects.

For check out some examples go here: Examples

Features

• easy creation of widgets and windows within the xlib windows system
• easy handling of multiple windows including multiple widgets
• easy memory managment by the xputty main struct
• easy to use main struct to handle the lifetime of all widgets and windows
  • Xputty main;
  • main_init(&main);
  • create_windows();
  • main_run(&main);
  • main_quit(&main);
• easy embedding XWindows into other native windows
• all events been handled by function pointers, thus allow
  • easy connection to event handlers by simply overwriting the defaults with you own handlers
  • implement you own events by add a function pointer and connect to it
  • block free connection between dialog boxes and the main window
• easy to use x/y adjustments to create your own controller widgets like sliders, knobs, buttons or trackballs
• double buffered cairo surfaces to enable transparent drawing on child widgets
• handle child widgets via childlist
• multiple implemented resizing options
• a couple of defined Widgets and Dialogs ready to use
• full documented API Documentation
• static linking to create position independent applications

Here is the usual hello world:

produced by this code:

#include "xputty.h"

/** your own expose function */
static void draw_window(void *w_, void* user_data) {
    Widget_t *w = (Widget_t*)w_;
    cairo_set_source_rgb (w->crb, 1, 1, 1);
    cairo_paint (w->crb);
}

int main (int argc, char ** argv)
{
    /** acces the main struct */
    Xputty app;
    /** init the main struct */
    main_init(&app);
    /** create a Window on default root window */
    Widget_t *w = create_window(&app, DefaultRootWindow(app.dpy), 0, 0, 300, 200);
    /** acces Xlib function */
    XStoreName(app.dpy, w->widget, "Hello world");
    /** overwrite event handler with your own */
    w->func.expose_callback = draw_window;
    /** map the Window to display */
    widget_show_all(w);
    /** run the event loop */
    main_run(&app);
    /** clean up after the event loop is finished */
    main_quit(&app);
    return 0;
}

Here are a bit more advanced examples:

License

     0BSD 

BSD Zero Clause License