watsonmw / platform

Win32 Graphics Demo Framework

Introduction

"platform" is a lightweight framework for writing graphical demos and screensavers on Windows.

The code abstracts away most Win32 internals, the idea being to keep most Win32-isms out of your projects, which is useful for porting or just improving the clarity of the code.

It contains utility classes for the following:

• Multi monitor screen savers, with preview and config modes
• Window creation and event interception
• OpenGL render context creation, both fullscreen and windowed
• Mouse and keyboard input
• Storing and reading settings from a file or the registry
• Threading
• Parsing command line switches
• Load image files
• Debug logging
• Directory listings/file info

Examples

Example programs are included under the "examples" directory.

1. PhotoViewer - A GDI screen saver that displays images from the local drive.

2. Matrix - A OpenGL screen saver that displays matrix style falling codes.

3. TerrainDemo - An OpenGL application with a startup dialog, that demonstrates fullscreen and windowed OpenGL. The keyboard and mouse are used to control the camera.