The Ecere SDK is a Software Development Kit including:
- A set of compiling tools for the eC programming language.
- An Integrated Development Environment, with the usual features such as:
- A source code editor with auto-completion, syntax highlighting
- Management of application and library projects
- A visual debugger
- A Rapid Application Development form designer, based on properties and methods
- A run time library, providing a uniform API across platforms, featuring:
- A GUI toolkit (with a vast collection of powerful controls: Buttons, Edit boxes, Drop/Combo boxes, Menus, Tabs, Tree views/Grids/List boxes, file dialogs, …)
- A 2D graphics API (bitmaps, fonts, international text, basic drawing)
- A 3D graphics API, supporting both Direct3D and OpenGL (3DS file format support)
- A networking API which provide Sockets as well as a distributed objects system for eC
- System functionality such as file access, multi-threading & synchronization, handling date & time, etc.
- Additional libraries and code for more features, such as:
- The Ecere Data Access (EDA) layer, an abstract relational database API, providing an active record system for eC. Currently it has drivers for a minimal Ecere RDBMS and SQLite (as well as an encrypted version using SQLCipher), and recently a basic Oracle driver was introduced.
- An audio library (supporting DirectSound on Windows and ALSA on Linux).
- WIA Scanning support on Windows.
- SSL Sockets suport through OpenSSL.
- A 2D tiled based game graphics engine (Tiled map, Sprites, A*).
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: zasper.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Ecere Corporation
License: New BSD licens
Ecere SDK is written in eC and C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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