Eiffel Windowing System - EWS

About

Eiffel Windowing System (EWS) is an Eiffel library which provides a small, stand-alone windowing system. The current implementation is based on the Simple Directmedia Library (SDL), but the design allows other graphical backends.

Besides the basic windowing system functionality (overlapping windows, event passing and handling, graphical operations, input froum mouse and keyboard), a small widget-toolkit is included (buttons, scrollbars, labels, etc.).

It's specially well suited for applications where a fine degree of control over presentation and timing is required. Multimedia applications and games are the usual examples.

News

• May 14 2006: EWS 1.0.1 won a silver award at the International Eiffel Programming Contest 2005
• Nov 13 2005: EWS 1.0.1 is tested and runs in MS-Windows (full-screen mode not working yet. A Screenshot is available.
• Oct 31 2005: EWS 1.0.1 released! Download and enjoy.
• Oct 15 2005: EWS was presented at CaFeConf 2005. Slides available online.
• Dec 28 2004: The website has been reorganized.
• Dec 23 2004: Project is now public, hosted at sourceforge.