= Gloss =
Gloss hides the pain of drawing simple vector graphics behind a nice data type and a few display functions. Gloss uses OpenGL and GLUT under the hood, but you won't have to worry about any of that. Get something cool on the screen in under 10 minutes.

Gloss is a fork and cleanup of ANUPlot, which has been used for teaching first year computer science at the [http://cs.anu.edu.au ANU] for the last few years. Its main goal is to allow total beginners to get something working with a minimum of fuss. 

== Download ==

=== From Hackage ===

 * [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gloss gloss]
 * [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gloss-examples gloss-examples]

=== With cabal ===
If you have cabal installed you should be able to do:
 {{{
 cabal update
 cabal install gloss
 cabal install gloss-examples
 gloss-styrene
 }}} 

=== From the darcs repo ===
The source repos are at http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss

 {{{
 darcs get http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/gloss-stable
 cd gloss-stable
 cd library
 cabal install 
}}}

Then again for the `examples` directory in that same repo. 

== FAQ ==
Q: Gloss freezes in `ghci`. It tries to draw the window but I don't get a picture and must kill the process.[[br]]
A: Start `ghci` with `-fno-ghci-sandbox`


== Report a bug ==

To report bugs, request features, or get an account on the trac, please send email to `gloss@ouroborus.net`

== Examples ==

These are some of the examples included in the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gloss-examples gloss-examples] package:

|| Hello || Lifespan || Styrene || Tree || Clock || Zen ||
|| [[Image(WikiStart:gloss-hello-thumb.png)]] || [[Image(WikiStart:gloss-lifespan-thumb.png)]] || [[Image(WikiStart:gloss-styrene-thumb.png)]] || [[Image(WikiStart:gloss-tree-thumb.png)]] || [[Image(WikiStart:gloss-clock-thumb.png)]] || [[Image(WikiStart:gloss-zen-thumb.png)]] ||
|| [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/gloss-stable/examples/Hello/Main.hs code] [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/wiki/images/gloss-hello.png result] || [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/gloss-stable/examples/Lifespan/ code] [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/wiki/images/gloss-lifespan.png result] || [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/gloss-stable/examples/Styrene/ code] [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/wiki/images/gloss-styrene.png result] || [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/gloss-stable/examples/Tree/Main.hs code] [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/wiki/images/gloss-tree.png result] || [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/gloss-stable/examples/Clock/Main.hs code] [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/wiki/images/gloss-clock.png result] || [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/gloss-stable/examples/Zen/Main.hs code] [http://code.ouroborus.net/gloss/wiki/images/gloss-zen.png result] ||