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- ccernn

the gui-less version is up’n'running, fully functional, but give me a few days, and you’ll be able to play around with it.. and no, i’m certainly not a graphic designer!

- ccernn

Chris Lomont’s Publications page
Toshi’s Project Page
be nice to your cache
bit twiddling hacks
A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
creating small win32 executables
techniques for reducing executable size
tiny pe
references on coding for optimization on x86 architectures
the impossibly fast c++ delegates
member function pointers and the fastest possible c++ delegates
const illustration in c++
rant on c++’s operator new
optimizing c++ (pdf)
c++ and the linker
hidden features of c++
source code for data structures and algorithm analysis in c
c++ for c programmers

plus:

keyj
nothings
sol

- ccernn

first i see this, and then this..

are people opening their eyes?

- ccernn

an opportunity to try the axonlib plugins in their ‘real world’, a very different (and alien) world than i has been used to… so, quickly, with lots of helpful hints from neolit123, a quite suitable development environment for axonlib were set up. mingw, codeblocks, rapidsvn, .. and it almost felt like ‘home’

and i’m proud (?) to tell you that i just compiled the first ‘working as expected’ exe file for windows, in windows.. quite a feat…

there’s some serious problems with the win32 support in axonlib at the moment, but with both os’es now available, and neolit123 helping, i hope it will be fixed quickly..

so, hopefully there will be plugins and binaries arriving soon…

- ccernn

i’ve been deeply immersed in the abstract world of c++ coding lately. the focus being axonlib, my portable (windows/linux) library/framework for creating standalone applications and vst plugins. this has (unfortunately) been affecting my focus and motivation to do other things, like manes and kkoagulaa, and answering emails, etc.. to everybody that this has/is affected/ing: sorry, i’ll be back soon… it’s just this one thing i need to do first..

• linux: separate event thread & display connection, now it works in Jost too (partially)
• improved mouse event handling vs container widgets (hovering, doEnter/Leave messages, etc)
• modular audio graph preparations

later today (or tomorrow) i will pack the current revision to a zip file, put that up on google code hosting for download, completely erase the files currently in there, and upload this newer version, even if it is broken and uncomplete at the moment (that’s why i’ll put the zip file there as a backup if needed), and possibly bumping the version number up to 0.0.99. when everything is in place again, there will be a 0.1.0 official ‘release’.

the two main (bigger) missing pieces is the win32 and vst audio/midi stuff. but this ought to be just a few copy/paste actions to get working… i have concentrated on getting the event/message passing right first, focusing on the class (inheritance) hierarchy, and having a smaller code-base to concentrate on during that, makes things easier… then i just fill in the blanks, copy/paste’ing from the previous version…

- ccernn

i’m very excited about this new version, and am already looking forward to making proper plugins and applications with it!

i’ve been disconnected from almost everything for a few weeks now… it’s been a good, quiet period, very productive.

been recoding axonlib from scratch.

i started to notice some problems in the original code design, and some other things i became more and more dis-satisfied with. things that hindered natural progression, that made it difficult to  add new features without breaking everything..

something needed to be done…

i initially wanted to do the changes slowly, one by one, in the current project, but i soon discovered that the low level changes made everything on top of it incompatible, so i would need to go over everything anyway, to clean it up, and tie up the loose ends…

so, i started from scratch, re-designed the class hierarchy, and started to fill in the blanks from there, a lot of copy/paste from the earlier version. now it will compile correctly again, and i have enough of the basic parts in there, working properly, that i can make simple debug/test plugins and applications.

the main low-level changes:

• cleaner, more uniform class hierarchy, better handling of platform dependent classes
• removed the necessity of most (or all) flags/defines
• no more global variables
• changed handling of canvas/gfx resources (color,pen,brush,font)
• skins
• low-level vst, using the AEffect struct directly
• standalone executables from unmodified source code (axPluginExe wrapper)
• better exe/plugin main/entrypoint handling

a few days [or worst case: week(s)] and it will be ready for a v0.1.0 i think. the missing bits and pieces is more or less just copy/paste into the new class hierarchy…

i also need to consider how the ‘upgrade’ will be done in the google code repository. should i make a new, separate project, or a separate sub directory in the existing project, or delete everything currently in there, and upload this new version over it?

- ccernn

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what do you think?

- ccernn