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Endo-agar in a petri dish. The word "agar" comes from the Malay word agar-agar (meaning jelly).

Agar is a modern open-source, cross-platform toolkit for graphical applications implemented in C, C++, Perl and Ada (with bindings to other languages in development). Designed for ease of integration, it follows the philosophy of building the GUI around the application and not the other way around. Unlike most other GUI toolkits, Agar takes maximum advantage of hardware graphics acceleration when it is available via OpenGL, but it also supports traditional framebuffer interfaces such as SDL / direct video. The Agar API is entirely thread-safe when Agar is compiled with optional threads support.

The distribution includes two libraries: Agar-GUI implements the base Agar GUI system and a comprehensive set of standard widgets. Agar-GUI is object-oriented and relies heavily on inheritance, virtual functions and virtual filesystems. This functionality is implemented by the GUI-independent Agar-Core library, which also includes various utility and portability interfaces. The Agar distribution also includes some more specialized libraries aimed at specific applications.

Agar is free software. Its source code is freely usable and re-usable by everyone under a BSD license, which allows use in commercial applications free of charge. Agar is stable, well-maintained and has been growing organically since early 2002.

The Agar project is sponsored by Csoft.net: Security conscious, high-availability Unix hosting on redundant server arrays.

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