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Canvas (GUI)

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Various free and open-source canvas or scene-graph libraries allow developers to construct a user interface and/or user-interface elements for their computer programs.^[2]

Examples of free and open-source scene-graph canvas options include:

• inC, Evas (in EFL) from the Enlightenment project
• inC, Clutter, associated with the GNOME project
• inC, GTK Scene Graph Kit (GSK)
• inC++ or optionally in Qt's own markup language QML: Qt Quick, provides a scenegraph Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine associated with the Qt project
• inC++, OpenSceneGraph, a 3D graphics API using OpenGL
• inC++, the OGRE engine, based on a scene graph, supports multiple scene managers
• inC++, OpenSG, a scene-graph system for real-time graphics, with clustering support and multi-thread safety
• inC++, the FlightGear Flight Simulator uses a custom Canvas system (LGPL'ed via SimGear^[3]) that is hardware-accelerated using OpenSceneGraph/OpenGL, OpenVG/ShivaVG:^[4] The FlightGear Canvas system
• inJava, the Java FX scene graph with 2D and 3D functionality
• inTcl and other languages such as Perl, Python (Tkinter^[5]), and Ruby, the Tk toolkit provides a canvas widget for 2D graphics^[6][7]
• inTcl^[8] and other languages such as Perl^[9] and Python,^[10] TkZinc Archived 2017-12-07 at the Wayback Machine is an extended replacement for the Tk canvas, which adds support for hierarchical grouping, clipping, affine transformations, anti-aliasing, and specific items for air traffic control.

Some canvas modules within various libraries do not provide the power of a full scene-graph - they operate at a lower level which requires programmers to provide code such as mapping mouse-clicks to objects in the canvas. Examples of libraries which include such a canvas module include:

• inC++, KDE Plasma Workspaces Corona canvas
• the Canvas elementinHTML5
• for Java, the AWT library Canvas
• for Java, the Java FX library Canvas^{[permanent dead link]}
• for Java, the Swing library Canvas
• for Java, the SWT library Canvas, associated with Eclipse
• for Java-like JavaScript, the GWT library Canvas
• inC++, the papyrus Canvas library which renders using the Cairo (graphics) library
• inC, crcanvas, a GTK canvas widget which renders using the Cairo (graphics) library
• inC, GooCanvas, a GTK canvas widget which renders using the Cairo (graphics) library

Proprietary canvas libraries include, for example:

• the Microsoft Windows Win32 Canvas

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