QGLViewer

libQGLViewer

openGL       Qt

Presentation

libQGLViewer is a C++ library based on Qt that eases the creation of OpenGL 3D viewers.

It provides some of the typical 3D viewer functionalities, such as the possibility to move the camera using the mouse, which lacks in most of the other APIs. Other features include mouse manipulated frames, interpolated keyFrames, object selection, stereo display, screenshot saving and much more. It can be used by OpenGL beginners as well as to create complex applications, being fully customizable and easy to extend.

Based on the Qt toolkit, it compiles on any architecture (Unix-Linux, Mac, Windows). Full reference documentation and many examples are provided. libQGLViewer does not display 3D scenes in various formats, but it can be the base for the coding of such a viewer.

libQGLViewer uses dual licensing: it is freely available under the terms of the GNU-GPL license for open source software development, while commercial applications can apply for a commercial license.

Over 400 downloads are recorded each month.

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Latest news

May 24th, 2012
Version 2.3.17
Compilation of the examples using a framework fixed on Mac (thanks Sara).
Apr 10th, 2012
Version 2.3.16
Added -lGLU linked library on Linux when building the examples (thanks Gianluca).
Mar 8th, 2012
Version 2.3.15
Added a QGLViewer prefix so that headers are correctly when using the framework on mac.
Mar 2nd, 2012
Version 2.3.14
Framework is now installed in the user's Library folder on mac (needed for Lion, thanks Rainer)
Added symbol export for designer plugin on windows.
Feb 24th, 2012
Version 2.3.13
Handle lowercase compilation output folder names on Windows (thanks Aassif).
Feb 14th, 2012
Version 2.3.12
Fixed glu compilation problems with Qt 4.8 (thanks FX, Oh and Erhan)
Removed deprecated Camera.setPhysicalDistanceToScreen (thanks Rainer)
Better documentation for the designer plugin installation (thanks Dennis)
Nov 27th, 2011
Version 2.3.11
Fixed compilation problems with Qt3 support and designerPlugin with Visual (thanks Edmond).
Resources problem with designerPlugin on Windows fixed, hopefully for real this time (thanks Dennis).
Jun 14th, 2011
Version 2.3.10
Fixed compilation problems with Qt3 support and designerPlugin with Visual (thanks Edmond).

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This project is referenced by the FSF, FreshMeat, Savannah, Freecode, Kde-apps and Qt-Apps.

Related pages : PyQGLViewer page (Python binding created by Frédéric Boudon), Yahoo Group.

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