AzurVeda Documentation

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BaseContext
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Example of tool browsing classes and objects in a context.

BaseObject
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An interface can be built automatically from an object shape.

VedaLibImage
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Fingerprint image built with package VedaLibImage

VedaLib3DEngine
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A preview of a 3D Object built with package VedaLib3DEngine

VirtualMedia
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Classes can manage sounds the same way as images or 3D!

Context Export
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Executables can be built from Libs and serialization for any platform!

Welcome to the AzurVeda project documentation !

AzurVeda is a set of libraries designed to conduct the development of applications. Basically, it is an experimental C++ framework, and can be seen as a C++ extension, which adds features that lacks to C++, like automatic serialization and other methods seen in java and C#, amongst other original features like context management or hardware abstraction. It is thought for system independance, interface experimentations, math experimentations, sound and graphical experimentations, 3D and more. It is open enough for portability to both modern and minimal systems, like embedded hardware, game consoles, and old hardware.
Extending this base Framework, a set of Libraries offers Math,Image, 3D and sound functionnalities, that can be themselves extended:
Use AzurVeda 's base types for your class members and class registration, and your class will get the AzurVeda features.



Before you go further, Note that this documentation is generated from the source comments; But Browsing by class inheritage is certainly not a good idea. We suggest you to read the paragraphs sorted by Theme Groups, as they are in the "Modules" page up there.

Context Management

Context management is done by class BaseContext, and you can have many context by applications. (Yes, that's what is called multicontext applications.) Contextes are like factories; By example, to have a 3D modeler, you should code some 3D object classes, some texture classes, some camera classes, and register those classes to a context... And that's all. A user interface project will be able to create an application from the context, and manage automatically Object creation, Edition and deletion for all the classes, and also the serialization of the whole context state with file reading, writting... and merging. You can even merge 2 contextes that has not exactly the same classes registered: two different applications made with AzurVeda on different subjects can be quickly melt to share their objects. You can use a first context with a first class set for your use, and a second context with a complete different class set, for another use, in the same application. An undo/redo stack is also automatically managed by each contextes, no need for additional code at any level. But the most interesting feature must be the dynamic pointer management: an object within a context can point others objects with a special pointer type. It makes possible the last following features:

To finish this list of features, the AzurVeda context objects can be edited on one thread while their methods are used by other threads, using a lock mecanism.

Virtual Machine

AzurVeda makes a point to bring independance everywhere: that is why the base package provides a pure virtual class that defines a Machine. This class will keep 100% independant from other classes, and provides methods for graphics, sounds, and more. You can choose to use the context features with or without the virtual machine, or use a virtual machine alone, with or without the context features. The real machine-specific code is managed by each VedaMachine's specific package, included in the releases.

Sound Management in VirtualMachine

the VirtualMachine class used by most AzurVeda project provides an original way to manage sounds. In classic applications, Each time you want a sound, music or anything, you have two possibilities:

AzurVeda 's VirtualMachine got a better solution: It plays a sound thread with a float buffer, and you can register mixing objects that will add their signals to it. This way, you are far more free to throw music, and experiment with sounds ! Furthermore, you can choose to use context-managed class VirtualMedia, which allows to use this system transparently, just by extending one method.

Coding Rules

AzurVeda project targets at least a minimal machine that would have a floating point unit and more than 4Mb of memory, according to your application needs. In order to assume these features, The libraries that extends objects from the AzurVeda base lib should apply to these code rules:

UnEditable Compilation Mode.

For some applications, we just need a context with objects that take a shape at inition, and then do not change. In that case, all the edition, serialization output, and events code should not be linked in the application. AzurVeda use a processor word, _ENGINE_EDITABLE_ that sort out all the code that could be useless in such application, and so ensure the minimal size for an executable. if you want the full features, use word processor _ENGINE_EDITABLE_ in your compilation project (usually, -D_ENGINE_EDITABLE_). Note: this processor word trick may not be continued in further versions, as linkers should manage the culling of useless methods.

licenses

Each AzurVeda libraries in the AzurVeda workspace get a specific license when they're created. a 'COPYING' file defines these licenses in each directories under the workspace, and this license only applies to the files under this directory. You should read those files. VedaLib, the base package, containing the classes to extend, is released under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1( Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc) It means, you can link this library into free or non-free programs. This license encourages " the widest possible use of this library, so that it becomes a de-facto standard". So you may release the sources of it or not in your applications.
VedaLibMath, VedaLibImage, VedaLib3DEngine, the example dir, plus VedaMachineOGL, VedaMachineLinux, VedaMachineOGLWinDxSound, and more, are also under the same license for the same reasons, but are only presenting possible standards, that may evolve: (It could be possible to have more than one Image standard in the same context, for example).

Other Libraries and applications under the AzurVeda Workspace directory may have a LGPL license or not. In the download section, we will provide with each new releases:

The AzurVeda Workspace library content is decided by the authors of VedaLib, the base package, and more contributions may be included with it in the future.
Updated on 2007/04/06


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