bjorndm / mado

Mado is a window/framebuffer client for Windows/Mac/Linux with glfw compatibility

About

Mado is an window/framebuffer client for Windows/Mac/Linux.

Based a lot on Gio UI.

Currently, WIP.

Purpose

• Intended to be a base layer for GUI toolkits and game engines.
• Transparent window control for various GUI desktops
  • Support for MS-Windows, Mac OS, X11 and Wayland
• Selectable hardware renderers
  • Support for OpenGL(ES), DirectX 11, Vulkan, Metal, CPU
• Transparent IME Text input support
• Provide glfw compatible API (a valid alternative from go-gl/glfw)
• Reduce cgo programs as much as possible and enable development in Go language

Means

The word 'Mado' is the Japanese word for '窓(まど)' and the meaning is Window.

Motivation

• I would like to see more GUI toolkits that support CJK Languages, e.g. Japanese.
• Solve the problem that IME text input is not supported in go-gl/glfw, which is widely used in Go language.

Aims for

• Achieve the purpose items
• Development by communities rather than individuals
• Provision of parts useful for GUI toolkit or game engines development
  • Events, OS Thread Managements, Common Drawing API

Not aims for

• Completed GUI toolkit and game engine

FAQ

• OpenGL examples can'nt run on MacOS
  • currently, metal context is selected as default. so run it
  • go main -tags=nometal main.go

License

MIT / The UNLICENSE