Crate piston_window[][src]

The official Piston window wrapper for the Piston game engine

Notice! If this is your first time visiting Piston, start here.

The purpose of this library is to provide an easy-to-use, simple-to-get-started and convenient-for-applications API for Piston.

Sets up:

  • Gfx with an OpenGL back-end.
  • gfx_graphics for 2D rendering.
  • glutin_window as default window back-end, but this can be swapped (see below).

Example

extern crate piston_window;

use piston_window::*;

fn main() {
    let mut window: PistonWindow =
        WindowSettings::new("Hello World!", [512; 2])
            .build().unwrap();
    while let Some(e) = window.next() {
        window.draw_2d(&e, |c, g| {
            clear([0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0], g);
            rectangle([1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0], // red
                      [0.0, 0.0, 100.0, 100.0], // rectangle
                      c.transform, g);
        });
    }
}

The draw_2d function calls the closure on render events. There is no need to filter events manually, and there is no overhead.

Swap to another window back-end

Change the generic parameter to the window back-end you want to use.

This example is not tested
extern crate piston_window;
extern crate sdl2_window;

use piston_window::*;
use sdl2_window::Sdl2Window;


let window: PistonWindow<Sdl2Window> =
    WindowSettings::new("title", [512; 2])
        .build().unwrap();

sRGB

The impl of BuildFromWindowSettings in this library turns on WindowSettings::srgb, because it is required by gfx_graphics.

Most images such as those found on the internet uses sRGB, that has a non-linear gamma corrected space. When rendering 3D, make sure textures and colors are in linear gamma space. Alternative is to use Srgb8 and Srgba8 formats for textures.

For more information about sRGB, see https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston/issues/1014

Library dependencies

This library is meant to be used in applications only. It is not meant to be depended on by generic libraries. Instead, libraries should depend on the lower abstractions, such as the Piston core.

Re-exports

pub extern crate texture;
pub use graphics::*;
pub use piston::window::*;
pub use piston::input::*;
pub use piston::event_loop::*;

Structs

PistonWindow

Contains everything required for controlling window, graphics, event loop.

Texture

Represents a texture.

TextureSettings

Texture creation parameters.

Enums

Filter

Sampling filter

Flip

Flip settings.

OpenGL

Type Definitions

G2d

2D graphics.

G2dTexture

Texture type compatible with G2d.

GfxEncoder

Actual gfx::Stream implementation carried by the window.

GfxFactory

Actual factory used by Gfx backend.

Glyphs

Glyph cache.