Introduction

ZFFramework is a cross-platform, lightweight, mid-level application framework in C++

Quick overview

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:

Requirement

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

Main Features

minimum requirement

require C++03 only, no C++11 or boost is required
built-in reflection, serialzation, styleable, leak test
"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
easy to communicate with native code

even to embed UI elements and native UI elements with each other
UI module to write cross-platform UI easily
built-in auto scale logic to support multiple screen size

you have no need to write size-dependent code in both app and implementation

What we do

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

What we won't do

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

Getting started

click here to see how to setup necessary environment for ZFFramework

click here for quick tutorial

License

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

blog: http://zsaber.com

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