Easy to use drawing library in c or c++?

Question

I'd need a very easy to use drawing c or c++ library. This means that I don't need to put buttons, frames or anything else in there, but I need just to draw points, circles, lines on a graphic window. Is that possible?

Solution 1

Cairo is a nice option if you are looking for ease of usage.

Solution 2

You can use one of the many C++ creative coding frameworks:

• Cinder
• openFrameworks
• polyCode

Solution 3

SDL is pretty nice. If you really want to get involved, Direct3D and OpenGL are probably the best options.

Solution 4

If you are working on Windows, try Direct2D, it's very powerful and equally simple to use.

More info at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd370990%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Solution 5

Try SFML: http://www.sfml-dev.org/

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Comments

[kalev]

... and it also has a C++ wrapper called cairomm.

[cib]

Trouble with SDL is that, AFAIK, it has few geometry drawing operations and you'll likely have to fall back to setPixel. That said, pygame.org/docs/ref/draw.html does have what's needed, maybe there's a C/C++ library based on SDL somewhere that does the same?