GLFW.jl

Julia interface to GLFW 3, a multi-platform library for creating windows with OpenGL or OpenGL ES contexts and receiving many kinds of input. GLFW has native support for Windows, OS X and many Unix-like systems using the X Window System, such as Linux and FreeBSD.

Example

import GLFW

# Create a window and its OpenGL context
window = GLFW.CreateWindow(640, 480, "GLFW.jl")

# Make the window's context current
GLFW.MakeContextCurrent(window)

# Loop until the user closes the window
while !GLFW.WindowShouldClose(window)

    # Render here

    # Swap front and back buffers
    GLFW.SwapBuffers(window)

    # Poll for and process events
    GLFW.PollEvents()
end

Interface

Read the GLFW documentation for detailed instructions on how to use the library. The Julia interface is almost identical to the underlying C interface, with a few notable differences:

• Clipboard (glfwGetClipboard, glfwSetClipboard) and time (glfwGetTime, glfwSetTime) functions have been omitted because Julia's standard library already supports similar functionality.
• glfwInit and glfwTerminate are called automatically using the __init__ and atexit functions. While it is okay to still call them explicitly, it is redundant and not required.

Footnotes

• While it is possible (and often convenient) to use closures or anonymous functions as callbacks, they are potentially less performant than using a top-level function.
• Special thanks to @afterwise for writing an early implementation of GLFW 3 support.