Documentation

Using the library

• Getting started: requirements, building and installing, the build options, the model the API follows, results, ids, defs and limits.
• Windows and monitors: creating and changing windows, owned windows and popups, custom chrome, monitors, handing a window to a GPU layer.
• Input: keys, text and input methods, the on-screen keyboard, the pointer, cursors, touch and pens.
• Gamepads: mapped and raw pads, rumble and motion.
• Clipboard and drag and drop.
• Services and system facts: file dialogs, addresses, files, keeping the display awake, message boxes, the user's preferences, accessibility hooks.
• Platforms: what each platform asks of a program.
• Testing a program on the headless test backend.
• API reference, generated from the headers.

How it works

• Overview: the library's profile, the core and the backends, and how a request travels.
• Glossary.
• The event stream: storage, merging, critical records and the limits' arithmetic.
• Text input, Gamepads, Clipboard and drops, Services.
• Backends: Linux, Wayland, X11, Win32, Apple, Android, Web.
• Maul conventions: the rules every Maul library follows.

Maintaining it

• Development: toolchain, building each platform, generated files, vendored data, fuzz findings.
• Checks: the local tiers, the test labels, the CI jobs and their budgets.
• Test environments: the display fixture, stand-ins, simulators, emulators and browsers.
• Release.