Chapter 27 . Programming Environments and Interfaces (Photoshop web design) 721
Chapter 27 . Programming Environments and Interfaces 721 API Category Description Libtiff 2-D Graphics The TIFF library provides an API for working with images stored in the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing high-quality, high-resolution images. Libungif 2-D Graphics libungif provides an API unencumbered by patents for loading and saving images in GIF format. Libusb Hardware libusb allows user space application access to USB devices. Libvorbis Audio This library supports the Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec, commonly known as Ogg Vorbis. Ogg Vorbis is an open, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for audio and music. Libwmf Graphics libwmf provides an API for interpreting, displaying, and converting metafile images to standard image formats such as PNG, JPEG, PS, EPS and SVG. libxml2 XML libxml2 is the XML parser library used by GNOME and KDE. Libxslt XML libxslt provides XSLT support for libxml2. XSLT is a language used to transform XML documents into other formats. Orbit CORBA ORBit is a high-performance Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) object request broker (ORB). ORBit allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the locations of the two programs. GNOME uses ORBit heavily. Pango Text layout Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango forms the core of text and font handling in GTK+-2.0. Pcre Regular The Perl-compatible regular expression (PCRE) library impleexpressions ments an API for regular expression pattern matching that uses the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. The PCRE library is used by many programs. pilot-link PalmOS pilot-link implements a library for communicating with Palm handheld devices and with other devices that adhere to the PalmOS interface standard. gnome-pilot and KPilot.use pilot-link. Popt General popt is a C library for parsing command-line parameters. popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but improves on them by allowing more powerful argument expansion and allows command-line arguments to be aliased via configuration files. Sdl Multimedia The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) provides a generic, crossplatform API for low-level access to audio, keyboards, mice, joysticks, 3-D hardware via OpenGL, and 2-D framebuffers. Continued
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