EZ-Draw, to draw in C

In this document, you will discover how to create small C programs that draw in windows, interact with the user at the keyboard or mouse, make animations or display images.

Everything has been simplified at the maximum and fit in few files. Pure magic, your programs will run on Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

This documentation is presented in two parts :

• the tutorial introduces notions step by step, with many examples;
• the reference manual describes all the available functions.

For easy navigation, you also have an index and a quick search box (on the left).

Enjoy!

Table of Contents

• 1. Tutorial
  • 1.1. First program with a window
  • 1.2. Compilation
  • 1.3. Event handler
  • 1.4. Drawings and colors
  • 1.5. Displaying text
  • 1.6. Tracing events
  • 1.7. Drawing with the mouse
  • 1.8. Managing several windows
  • 1.9. Text input
  • 1.10. Animations
  • 1.11. Images
• 2. Reference manual
  • 2.1. Main loop
  • 2.2. Windows
  • 2.3. Events
  • 2.4. Colors
  • 2.5. Drawings
  • 2.6. Text and fonts
  • 2.7. Double buffering
  • 2.8. Timers
  • 2.9. Client-data
  • 2.10. The image type
  • 2.11. Managing images
  • 2.12. Operations on images
  • 2.13. Speed up image display
  • 2.14. Miscellaneous
• 3. Installation
  • 3.1. Ubuntu or Debian
  • 3.2. Fedora
  • 3.3. Mac OS X
  • 3.4. Other Unices
  • 3.5. Windows
  • 3.6. Cygwin
  • 3.7. Tested Environments
  • 3.8. Changes
  • 3.9. Contributors