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Features
Graphics:
- Very flexible layer-based graphics engine
- Support for alpha channel graphics
- Sprites of any size can be used
- Extensive text support incl. on-the-fly formatting, wordwrapping, and rotation
- Platform independent TrueType text rendering
- Video playback fully supported
- Loads real vector image formats like SVG
- PDF import and export supported
- Many graphics primitives supported (ellipses, arcs, lines, rectangles, polygons...)
- Support for vector-based drawing (Bezier splines...)
- Optional antialiasing for text and graphics primitives
- Over 150 transition effects for graphics and text
- Tons of image processing functions
- Powerful off-screen rendering functions incl. rendering to masks and alpha channels
- Extensive clipping support (rectangular and custom shaped clipping regions)
- Support for hardware accelerated double-buffered displays
- Animation support
- Graphics can be exported as PNG, or even as AVI video streams
- Windows can use alpha channel transparency
- OpenGL 3D programming supported via plugin
- SDL programming supported via plugin
- Video streaming supported via a dedicated plugin
Sound:
- Multichannel sound interface
- Support for samples and sound streams
- Protracker modules can be played
- Volume and pitch of samples can be changed during playback
- Multichannel mixer for manipulating samples
- Dynamically generated sound can be sent to the audio device
- Audio streaming supported via a dedicated plugin
GUI:
- Native GUI development supported via the RapaGUI plugin
- Create native GUIs for Windows, Linux (GTK), macOS, Android and AmigaOS (MUI)
- GUIs are conveniently layouted using XML files
- Support for over 40 different widgets
- Full flexibility because Hollywood displays can be embedded in native GUIs
- Completely platform-independent GUI development - use the same code on every platform!
Network:
- Full Internet and network support
- Create server and client connections
- Transfer data using a wide variety of protocols like HTTP, FTP and SCP
- Serial I/O support through RS/232 or USB adapters
- IPC support for communicating with other programs
- IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces supported
- Full SSL/TLS support
System:
- Powerful yet extremely easy to use programming language
- Cross-platform compiler that supports Amiga compatibles, Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Android and iOS support via the freely available Hollywood Player
- APKs can be generated via the optionally available APK Compiler
- Executables compiled by Hollywood do not require any additional packages/DLLs (they also run from USB sticks!)
- All data files (including fonts) can be embedded in a single executable
- Unicode fully supported
- Windowed and full screen mode supported
- Multi-monitor support
- Sandbox container: programs can never crash
- Creation of OS menus is supported
- Event-based programming model guarantees moderate CPU usage
- Low latency interval and timer functions
- Extensive DOS library to work with the file system
- Support for ZIP and other archivers
- Convenient access to clipboard
- Access to system dialogs (file chooser, string prompt, etc.)
- Drag'n'drop support
- Database management via SQL supported
- Comprehensive string and math library
- Mouse cursor can be easily replaced with a custom cursor
- Convenient data serialization to and from JSON and XML
- Date and time functions
- Easy internationalization of programs via catalog system
- Joystick support
Plugin:
- Extremely powerful, cross-platform plugin system
- Publicly available SDK with over 400 pages of documentation and example code
- Default display driver is completely retargetable through entirely different subsystems (e.g. OpenGL, SDL, ...)
- Default audio driver is completely retargetable through entirely different subsystems
- Plugins can add loaders and savers for additional image, animation, sound, and video formats
- All file I/O can be rerouted through customized handlers
- Hollywood's language command set can be extended via plugins
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