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Freeglut

FreeGLUT is a free-software/open-source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL RedBook. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, widely available and highly portable.

Usage

from glumpy import app

app.use("freeglut")
window = app.Window()

Capability

Multiple windows ✘ Set GL API ✘
Non-decorated windows ✓ Set GL Profile ✘
Resize windows ✓ Share GL Context ✘
Move windows ✓ Unicode handling ✘
Fullscreen ✓ Scroll event ✓

OSX Glut

The OSX GLUT backend is only available Apple machine and differs a bit from the original glut implementation. It is very limited, deprecated and does not support the mouse scroll event. After OSX El Capitan, it will most likely become unavailable.

Usage

from glumpy import app

app.use("osxglut")
window = app.Window()

Capability

Multiple windows ✘ Set GL API ✘
Non-decorated windows ✓ Set GL Profile ✘
Resize windows ✓ Share GL Context ✘
Move windows ✓ Unicode handling ✘
Fullscreen ✓ Scroll event ✘

GLFW

GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for creating windows with OpenGL contexts and receiving input and events. It is easy to integrate into existing applications and does not lay claim to the main loop.

Usage

from glumpy import app

app.use("glfw")
window = app.Window()

Capability

Multiple windows ✓ Set GL API ✓
Non-decorated windows ✓ Set GL Profile ✓
Resize windows ✓ Share GL Context ✓
Move windows ✓ Unicode handling ✓
Fullscreen ✓ Scroll event ✓

Pyglet

Pyglet is a pure python cross-platform application framework intended for game development. It supports windowing, user interface event handling, OpenGL graphics, loading images and videos and playing sounds and music. It works on Windows, OS X and Linux.

Usage

from glumpy import app

app.use("pyglet")
window = app.Window()

Capability

Multiple windows ✓ Set GL API ✘
Non-decorated windows ✓ Set GL Profile ✘
Resize windows ✓ Share GL Context ✓
Move windows ✓ Unicode handling ✓
Fullscreen ✓ Scroll event ✓

Pygame

Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language.

Usage

from glumpy import app

app.use("sdl")
window = app.Window()

Capability

Multiple windows ✘ Set GL API ✘
Non-decorated windows ✓ Set GL Profile ✘
Resize windows ✘ Share GL Context ✘
Move windows ✘ Unicode handling ✓
Fullscreen ✓ Scroll event ✘

SDL2

PySDL2 is a wrapper around the SDL2 library and as such similar to the discontinued PySDL project. In contrast to PySDL, it has no licensing restrictions, nor does it rely on C code, but uses ctypes instead.

Usage

from glumpy import app

app.use("sdl2")
window = app.Window()

Capability

Multiple windows ✓ Set GL API ✓
Non-decorated windows ✓ Set GL Profile ✓
Resize windows ✓ Share GL Context ✓
Move windows ✓ Unicode handling ✓
Fullscreen ✓ Scroll event ✓

PySide

PySide is the Python Qt bindings project, providing access the complete Qt 4.8 framework as well as to generator tools for rapidly generating bindings for any C++ libraries.

Usage

from glumpy import app

app.use("pyside")
window = app.Window()

Capability

Multiple windows ✓ Set GL API ✓
Non-decorated windows ✓ Set GL Profile ✓
Resize windows ✓ Share GL Context ✓
Move windows ✓ Unicode handling ✓
Fullscreen ✓ Scroll event ✓

Template

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