RealWorld Designer

Discover what’s the RealWorld all about.

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This is blog is about RealWorld Designer framework, the applications based on it, and related topics (computer graphics & programming).
RealWorld Designer is a very thin framework, where almost everything is a plugin. There are plug-ins for:

  • Serialization - open file from file system, Win32 resource, internet, …
  • Document type recogniton and parsing - open images, 3D models, icons, cursors, text files, or other custom document types.
  • Document creation wizards.
  • Operations - resample image, create new icon formats, generate normal vectors, …
  • Transformations - create one document from another document (render an image, create icon from image, …).
  • Menu commands - add a single command or an entire submenu tree to menu or toolbar.
  • Views - display and modify your documents with built-in views, your own views, or a combination.
  • Image codecs - of course.
  • 3D renderers - raytracing, OpenGL, …
  • Icon containers - for usage in menus and toolbars.

RWD plug-ins are not ordinary plug-ins, they are something I’d like to call cooperating plug-ins. But more on this topic in its own post.