welcome to ZFFramework, a cross-platform, lightweight, mid-level application framework in C++
everything here starts with "ZF", which stands for "Zero Framework"
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it's a framework, you are able to write all of your code under ZFFramework to build your app quickly
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it's not a traditional framework, it's able to be loaded like a dynamic library, plug and play
you are able to embed ZFFramework to your native framework, or embed your native code to ZFFramework
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as a mid-level framework, it's designed to be able to run at any platform that supplies C++03
normal app, OpenGL app, or even text-based console app, everything's done if you are able to supply your own implementation
this piece of code shows how to show a hello world on UI and log output
#include "ZFUIKit.h" // for UI module
ZFMAIN_ENTRY(params) // app starts from here
{
// show a hello world as a text view
zfblockedAlloc(ZFUIWindow, window);
window->windowShow();
zfblockedAlloc(ZFUITextView, textView);
window->childAdd(textView);
textView->textContentSetString(zfText("hello world"));
// show a hello world to log output
zfLogT() << zfText("hello wolrd");
return 0;
}and here are screenshot of demo 2048 game built by ZFFramework:
- for the core modlue:
- C++03 compatible compiler (require templates, no boost/RTTI/exceptions required)
- STL containers (require: map/unordered_map/vector/deque/list), or supply custom wrapper
- for the implementation module:
- depends on the actual platform implementation
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minimum requirement
require C++03 only, no C++11 or boost is required
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built-in reflection, serialzation, styleable, leak test
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"core + protocol + dynamic implementation" design
support any platform if you are able to supply a native C++ implementation, most of implementation can be replaced easily, and implementation is required only if its owner module being used
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easy to communicate with native code
even to embed UI elements and native UI elements with each other
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UI module to write cross-platform UI easily
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built-in auto scale logic to support multiple screen size
you have no need to write size-dependent code in both app and implementation
- aiming to be portable and can be ported easily, aiming to be lightweighted and able to be embeded easily, aiming to use 20% code to do 80% work
- supply Java-like / ObjectC-like app level APIs to build up small/medium sized app easily
- we won't supply functional libraries such as boost, however, you may still easily use them
- we won't supply all-in-one framework to do everything, we are more likely to be a mid-level framework
click here to see how to setup necessary environment for ZFFramework
click here for quick tutorial
ZFFramework is under MIT license (see here), feel free to copy or modify or use it, except that you must leave this README and license files unmodified
project home page: http://ZFFramework.com
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