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Introduction

This document describes VGUI, a library that provides 2D and 3D drawing in a way that is both simple and powerful. The basic design goals are:

The basic concept in the new GUI is that the user has access to a rectangular area (or areas) of the screen, on which OpenGL may be used to draw and from which events are received. Such an area is called a tableau. Once-off adaptor code is provided that plugs a tableau into any supported GUI toolkit.



Target Junior User
2000-10-31