GS is not recommended for use in new applications. Instead we recommend WX for applications that need a graphical user interface.
GS is not maintained and we plan to deprecate and remove it from the distribution as soon as possible, maybe already in the next major release (R15).
This section describes the general graphics interface to Erlang. This system was designed with the following requirements in mind:
Erlang has been implemented on a wide range of platforms and the graphics system works on all these platforms. Erlang applications can be written towards the same graphics API and the application can run on all supported platforms without modif
