[KLUG Members] ParaGUI: a SDL-based (multimedia) application framework

[Bryan J. Smith]

I just ran across this on Freshmeat.  I was curious if someone was
going to do something like this.

The screenshots look pretty sweet!
http://www.bms-austria.com/projects/paragui/doc/screenshots.html

For those that don't know, SDL is the Simple DirectMedia Layer.  It
is a cross-platform (UNIX, Windows, MacOS, BeOS) application
framework with extensive audio/visual/multimedia capabilities
(including network/distributed).  It is quickly becoming the
"standard" for cross-platform multimedia/entertainment creation,
used alongside OpenGL for 3D graphics (including
network/distributed) as well as OpenAL for 3D/spacial audio.

ParaGUI is licensed LGPL.  It is C++ based with Python and other
bindings coming along), multithreaded and uses XML style
files/scripts.  The ParaGL library includes OpenGL capabilities.  So
it's a "complete solution" for application development -- especially
you want full-screen or transparent windows, "emersion-like"
eye-candy.

BTW, I especially love the developers story ...

"We have been developing WindowsNT based applications for a couple
of years (and are now almost brain dead).

To get rid of all the dll-versions-mfc-internet-explorer crap we
were looking for alternative platforms and operating systems for our
development. Finally we found Sam's SDL and were amazed about the
flexibility and speed. One thing missing to shift our development to
that new platform was the lack of a widgetset that would meet our
requirements.

So I started to implement some widgets utilizing SDL and after some
time the whole thing lifted off! After about 6 month of development
we decided to follow the spirit of the open source community and
released the first version under the LGPL."

-- Bryan

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