Showcase

Features

Some of the features of GLFW as of version 2.7 are:

Very easy to use API, similar in style to the OpenGL API
No system specific code necessary
Have an OpenGL window up with two function calls
Explicit support for OpenGL 3.2+ context creation
Good fullscreen support across all platforms
Keyboard, mouse, joystick¹ and time input
Basic Unicode character input
Multi-threading support
Support for fullscreen anti-aliasing via multisampling
It is Open Source with a liberal, OSI-certified license
Support for most popular C/C++ compilers
Comprehensive documentation with a Users Guide, Reference Manual and examples
Can link either statically or dynamically with your application

...and it's still quite small.

1. Joysticks are not yet supported on Mac OS X.

Screenshots

As GLFW doesn't itself render anything and uses only standard window manager decorations, there is little to show of GLFW itself.

Instead, here is a small showcase of software using GLFW.

If you feel your application should be listed here, please contact us.

AntTweakBar

Screenshot of the AntTweakBar UI editing a cube

AntTweakBar is a small and easy-to-use C/C++ library that allows one to quickly add a light and intuitive GUI into graphic applications based on OpenGL, DirectX 9 or DirectX 10 to interactively tweak their parameters on-screen.

BlendELF

Screenshot of the BlendELF engine rendering a test scene

BlendELF is a small, scriptable 3D game engine.

Grand Central

Screenshot of Grand Central

Grand Central is a multi-platform PC demo by Outbreak, released at Icons 2008.

Horde3D

Screenshot of Horde3D rendering a character

Horde3D is Horde3D is a small Open Source 3D rendering engine, intended to offer the visual effects expected in next-generation games while at the same time being as lightweight and conceptually clean as possible.

VSXu

VSXu is a free tool to visually connect modules that perform rendering and mathematical tasks to build graphical effects that react to music in realtime or sequenced over time.