CoreSpark
CoreSpark is a collection of cross-platform libraries that provide basic system functions such as threading, memory management, I/O as well as complete libraries for user interfaces, service discovery, persistence, networking and a scripting engine. CoreSpark is licensed under the LGPL v3. CoreSpark is used by TJShow, TJingle and EPFramework.
Getting the source
The source code for CoreSpark is available (through SVN) at https://svn.pixelspark.nl/svn/corespark. This version is the 'official' Pixelspark version and contains only peer-reviewed, checked additions and is (generally) well-tested. In addition, the project is also available through GitHub (which is the best option if you want to fork and change parts of CoreSpark and later send us the changes).
Components
A list with all libraries within CoreSpark is displayed below. Not all libraries work on all platforms (although most of them do); please check below for platform support and binary names.
| Component | Docs | Win | Mac | Linux | Description | Win DLL | Mac Framework | Linux libname |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TJShared | API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Shared functions that are used by all other libraries | tjshared.dll | TJShared.framework | libtjshared.so |
| TJSharedUI | Yes | No | No | Shared user interface library used by TJShow and plug-ins | tjsharedui.dll | |||
| TinyXML | API | Yes | Yes | Yes | XML parser library | tinyxml.dll | TinyXML.framework | libtinyxml.so |
| OSCPack | Yes | Yes | Yes | OpenSoundControl message formatting library | oscpack.dll | OSCPack.framework | liboscpack.so | |
| TJScript | API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Scripting engine library | tjscript.dll | TJScript.framework | libtjscript.so |
| TJScout | Yes | Yes | Yes | Service discovery and publication abstraction library | tjscout.dll | TJScout.framework | libtjscout.so | |
| TJNP | API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Networking library | tjnp.dll | TJNP.framework | libtjnp.so |
| TJDB | Yes | ?? | ?? | Database abstraction layer library | tjdb.dll | |||
| TJDMXEngine | Yes | ?? | ?? | DMX-512 mixing & output engine library | tjdmxengine.dll | DMXEngine.framework | libtjdmxengine.so |
Documentation
The following pages document some special features of the libraries in CoreSpark:
- Memory Management: using the different reference types (ref<T>, strong<T>, weak<T>) throughout the TJShow SDK
- Dispatch Queues: a high-level approach to concurrency
- Deepfreeze, a component in the TJDB library that lets you persist objects in a database
- Serialization of objects to and from XML