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The BlitzMax APIs are a collection of core modules designed to help you build your next, great BlitzMax application.
They include Modules for things such as image loading, audio handling, fast 2D graphics, lua integration, threading, and window-based user interfaces.
They are split into what are known as modscopes in BlitzMax parlance, or
perhaps more familiarly as namespaces.
The Blitz Runtime Libraries (BRL), contain the core of BlitzMax functionality that you
are likely to use from day to day.
The PUB modscope generally contains third party libraries and platform-specific
helpers. These are considered more low-level, and generally you won't use
these modules directly.
MaxGUI provides access to native windowing toolkits, such as Cocoa on macOS
and GTK+3 on Linux, allowing you to build complex user interface-driven
applications.
The SDL modscope can be used as a replacement graphics and system-integration
backend for the default modules provided by BRL. It is optional on the main
desktop platforms, but generally required on the other targets (iOS, Android, rpi, NX).
It is a full implementation of SDL in BlitzMax, including SDL's Render and Window subsystems,
which can be used directly if preferred.