Useful tools and utilities. Most of these files are free standing but files that are in the same folder may rely on each other.
All / most of these files require at least a C++14 compiler, and only use the Standard Library. They are designed to be platform agnostic.
- PImpl - the pointer-to-implementation idiom, used as a compilation firewall and for stable ABIs.
- COMInterface - represents a Component Object Model interface pointer, similar to ATL's CComPtr or WRL's ComPtr. This class does not include any platform headers, so it does not suffer from Windows.h bloat.
- Platform Detection - it checks for some macros to determine the platform and defines some unified macros (WINDOWS, LINUX, MAC)
- Timer / Clock - similar to SFML's Clock class, but uses C++11's
<chrono>library. It also determines and uses the highest resolution monotonic clock available on the target platform. - Hybrid Graphics support - if you build an app with the file HybridGraphics.cpp, it will force systems with NVIDIA Optimus / AMD Power Xpress to use the dedicate graphics card.
The code in this repo can be considered public domain, being licensed under the Unlicense.