Warning
Currently, this is a work in progress!
Poprock is a resilient and lightweight framework designed to harness the extensive Java ecosystem for the swift and efficient development of desktop applications. Beyond constructing basic GUIs, the Poprock framework seamlessly extends its utility to creating straightforward games, music players, and other applications. In addition to desktop applications, Poprock can function as a standalone library for diverse tasks such as mathematical computations, audio processing, image processing, and more.
Furthermore, it is licensed under the free-to-use BSD-4 license.
- Graphics Toolkit with hardware (OpenGL) & software rendering
- Native Audio engine using ALSA, Jack, Pulse
- Tailwind - real-time signal processing (WIP)
- Fast Linear Algebra lib
- Thread safe caching libraries
- Image Processing
- Property management paradigm through pools and registries
- Prismix - color & Theme Processor
- Txfyr - a simple texture atlas library
- Seamless native SYS calls for Windows, OSX, and Linux*
- Lua SPI integrations
- Uses Constructive semantics to create always readable code
... and more to come
This section documents quirks and other features that are used in the "code" of Poprock
Named construction leverages method chaining to produce objects that need much information (parameters) to be computed. Here is a look at the differences between traditional Setters (imperative) and using Named Construction (as adopted in Poprock):
Imperative (set-) |
Named (with-) |
|---|---|
JFrame jf=new JFrame();
jf.setTitle("Foo");
jf.setIconImage(ImageIO.read("icon.png"));
Dimension dim=new Dimension(300,400);
jf.setSize(dim);
jf.setPreferredSize(dim);
jf.setMaximumSize(dim);
jf.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
jf.pack();
jf.setVisible(true) |
UIWindow.make()
.withTitle("Foo")
.withIcon(
AssetsService.fetchImage("icon.png")
.as(ImageRasterizer.Type.BUFFERED_IMAGE)
)
.withDim(300,400)
.withMaxDim(300,400)
.withLocation(Alignment.CENTER)
.run(); |
Note
The formatting is also part of the "Named" Construction pattern and is critical to making the code much more readable.