Core Library

Essential support library. More...

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Detailed Description

Essential support library.

The ImFusionCore library provides generic core functionality that is not specific to any business logic.

• Assertion Library provides a powerful and flexible alternative to the basic assert() of the C standard library.
• Logging offers a lightweight logging framework used by the ImFusion SDK.
• Resource System enables you to retrieve binary data at runtime that has been embedded into the application during compile time.
• Object Serialization offers means to generically transform object state to strings that can be saved and restored from on disk.
• Signals and Slots offers a simple yet powerful interface for loosely coupled communication between different objects similar to the Observer design pattern.
• Filesystem Library provides an easy-to-use abstraction layer for accessing the local filesystem so that you do not need to fall back on OS-specific APIs or third-party libraries.
• Geometry Library contains various geometric objects and functions to intersect them.
• Furthermore, several namespaces group classes and functions to complement the standard library with extra functionality and/or help with everyday tasks:
  • The Container namespace provides utility functions for (STL) container access and their manipulation.
  • The Threading namespace contains a couple of classes for advanced multi-threading.
  • The Platform namespace offers a selection of platform-specific functions.
  • The String namespace contains utility functions for working with std::string.
  • The Compression namespace contains utility functions to compress arbitrary data.
  • The Cryptography namespace contains utility functions for data encryption and signing.
  • The Hashing namespace contains utility functions for non-cryptographic hashing of data, for instance to use them in std::unordered_map.
  • Finally, there are the Generic utility classes and helper functions that do not fit into any of the previous categories.

Topics
	Application Settings
	Persistent platform-independent application settings.
	Assertion Library
	Assertion library.
	Container Utilities
	Utility functions for (STL) container access and manipulation.
	Filesystem Library
	Lightweight filesystem library.
	Generic Utilities
	Generic utility classes and helper functions of the ImFusionCore library.
	Geometry Library
	Basic geometry library.
	Logging
	Lightweight logging framework of the ImFusion SDK.
	Multi-Threading Utilities
	Utility classes for multi-threading.
	Non-cryptographic Hashing
	Tools and functions to compute non-cryptographics hashes, for instance to use them in std::unordered_map.
	Object Serialization
	Serialization of data structures to and from generic storage.
	Platform-specific functions
	Selection of platform-specific functions.
	Random Number Generation
	Convenient random number generation that offers automatic seeding and works with standard distributions (boost distributions are the default, but a distribution of choice can be used).
	Resource System
	Resource system to retrieve at runtime binary data embedded into the application/library.
	Signals and Slots
	Lightweight implementation of the signal-slot design pattern.
	String Processing
	Utility functions for working with std::string.

Namespaces
namespace	ImFusion::Compression
	Data compression tools
namespace	ImFusion::Cryptography
	Cryptographic tools.
namespace	ImFusion::Encoding
	Functions for encoding and decoding of binary and text data.