Feature List

• Platform Support
  • Windows XP, Vista, 7
  • Linux
  • Android (coming soon!)
• Architecture Support
  • x86 32-bit
• Compiler Support
  • GCC 3.4.5 (or newer)
• Graphics API
  • OpenGL
  • DirectX 9 (coming soon!)
• Window Handling
  • Create & destroy windows
  • Windowed & fullscreen modes
  • Dynamic video mode switching & window style modification
  • Set window title, dimensions & position
  • Get window title, dimensions & parameters
  • Manually minimize and restore
• Video Mode Handling
  • Get desktop dimensions
  • Query supported video modes
• Peripheral Input
  • Mouse
  • Get button states
  • Get / set wheel position
  • Get / set cursor position
  • Show / hide mouse cursor
  • Set custom cursor image (Windows only)
  • Set standard system cursor shapes (Windows only)
  • Keyboard
  • Get key states
  • Joystick (coming soon!)
• High Resolution Timer
  • Get & set time
  • Count FPS
  • Set constant FPS
  • Idle time handling
• 2D / 3D Vectors
  • Get vector length, dot product, cross product, etc.
  • Lots of overloaded operators
• 3x3 / 4x4 Matrices
  • Load identity
  • Translate, rotate, scale, and shear
  • Identify pure matrix types (coming soon!)
  • Add, subtract, multiply, and compare matrices
  • Transform vectors by matrices
  • Convert to & from OpenGL-style matrices
• Hardware Accelerated Rendering
  • Viewports
  • Multiple viewports
  • Relative and absolute sizing
  • Cameras
  • Orthographic projection
  • Translate, rotate, and zoom
  • Sprites
  • Translate, rotate, scale, flip, etc.
  • Texture, color, alpha blend, etc.
  • Tile Animated Sprites
  • All of the features of a sprite, and then some
  • Set start and end frames
  • Any number of columns, rows, and frames
  • Set independent frame rate (fps)
  • Play, stop, pause animation
  • Playback modes: forward, reverse, loop, pingpong
  • Text
  • Bitmap font rendering
  • TrueType font rendering
  • Antialiasing
  • Spacing, padding, and kerning
  • And lots more...
  • Set alignment, character spacing, line spacing, and orientation
  • Translate, rotate, scale, and shear individual characters
  • Lines
  • Enable / disable anti-aliasing
  • Draw lines and/or points
  • Set line width, color, alpha, etc.
  • Textures
  • 2D texture support
  • Texture overlaying
  • Accepts non-power-of-2 images.
  • Set filter and wrap modes
• Particle System
• Skinnable GUI
  • Widgets
  • Label
  • Button
  • Check box
• Collision Detection
  • Mouse picking
  • Bounding collisions
  • Point
  • Ray
  • Bounding circle
  • Axis-aligned bounding box
  • Oriented bounding box
  • Sweep testing (coming soon!)
• Keyframe Animation
• Game States
  • Inheritable game state framework
  • Update, draw, pause, resume, and restart
• Game State Management
  • Add underlay / overlay scenes
  • Remove scenes
  • Update, draw, pause, resume, and restart scenes en masse
• Event Handling
  • Linear event dispatching
  • Send & receive events
  • Register customized user event receivers
  • Send & receive customized user events
• Image reading/writing
  • Truevision Targa 1.0/2.0 (TGA) r/w
  • Portable Network Graphic (PNG) r/w
• Template-based Container Classes
  • Doubly-linked list
  • Stack
  • Queue
• Data Streams
  • File stream
  • Memory stream
  • Text stream
• Directory Management
  • Create / remove directories
  • Get / set current working directory
  • Get application file path
  • Get application directory
  • Get application filename
  • Recursive path creation / removal (coming soon!)
• System Information
  • Get number of processors (Windows only)
  • Get processor type (Windows only)
  • Get amount of total & free memory
• Power Information (Windows only)
  • Get power source
  • Get battery status & life
• Miscellaneous
  • Save screenshots