This is an Alpha (betaish) version of a portable GUI TK API. It supports WinApi and XLib bindings.

This can be used to write portable graphic applications and games in C++ with Window, Canvas and (bitmap) Image objects. There are also event handlers for keyboard and mouse user events.

Everything should build fine with Bazel by doing minimal changes to the WORKSPACE file.

CMake can also be used to build the library and the examples. (TODO add CMakeLists.txt for linux directory)

If you don't want to use a build system, you need to set your favorite C++ compiler to C++14 and build a library with all files under src directory. Windows builds need to include win32 directory as well and link with gdi32 and user32 libs. Linux builds need to include linux directory likewise and link with X11 lib.

Library clients should only include "src/die-tk.h", which includes all the necessary header files from src subdirectories.

The die-tk-image directory is optional. It can also be included in the build when support for loading image files is needed. It depends on http://github.com/thinlizzy/libimage

The die-tk-controls directory is optional as well. It can be included in the build if the application needs basic GUI controls.

Applications that use die-tk will need to link with gdi32 and user32 libs for Windows or X11 lib for Linux.

If die-tk-image is included, then applications will need to link with libimage and FreeImage libs.

If die-tk-controls is included, then applications will need to link with comdlg32 for Windows. Linux is TBD for this lib

The directory examples has some example applications to experiment with die-tk.

• test X11 more and more. The image manipulation routines can be greatly improved
• currently some of the Canvas functions are behaving differently in win32 and X11. They need to be normalized
• add more example apps
• the paintbox implementation in X11 lacks transparency support