libwm is a cross-platform C++ library to help with windowing, event handling and context creation in OpenGL applications.

Libwm 0.2.1 released

Jan 30th, 2011 Libwm 0.2.1 released

Changes:

• New API for changing current OpenGL context

Aug 28th, 2009 Libwm 0.2.0 released.

Changes:

• Surface::getSize
• OpenGL 3.x support using ARB_create_context extensions
• Explicit control over direct/indirect rendering on Xlib
• Separate read and draw surfaces on Win32 using WGL_ARB_make_current_read
• Multisampling support using GLX 1.3, GLX_ARB_multisample for GLX 1.2 and WGL_ARB_multisample
• Detect shared-exponent (sRGB) capable pixel formats
• Support for floating point and packed unsigned float pixel formats
• Detect slow, non-hardware accelerated pixel formats
• Configuration::getProcAddress wrapper function for loading OpenGL extension functions

Aug 13th, 2009 Libwm 0.1.0 released.

Documentation

• Building instructions
• Tutorial

Features

• Windowing, input event handling and OpenGL context creation with Win32 or X11 on Linux, Mac OS X and other Unixes
• Not limited to single window, single OpenGL context or single thread
• Internationalized text input using Windows Unicode or X Input Methods
• Simple C++ programming interface
• RAII for resource management, exceptions for error handling
• Uses the Pimpl idiom for strong encapsulation, no namespace clutter