Aspartame v0.0.2

Aspartame is a wannabe-Cocoa C++ library by Joachim Bengtsson and David Sveningsson.

It is currently in the process of being extracted piece-by-piece from Rymdvarelser Mot Soldater.

Example

AutoreleasePool *pool = alloc(AutoreleasePool)->init();
Dictionary *foo = dict(s("Hej"), s("Foo"), 
                       s("Nisse"), num(3),
                       NULL);
ConPrint("%@", foo);

pool->release();

// OUTPUTS:
// <Dictionary(2) at 0x300710> {
          Hej: Foo
          Nisse: 3.000000
// }

dict is short for Dictionary::dictionaryWithKeysAndObjects(), num is short for Number::numberWithReal(), s is short for String::stringWithCString(), sf is short for String::stringWithFormatString().

Features

Apart from the common Cocoa classes like Object, String, Dictionary, Array, AutoreleasePool and Number, it features optional bindings with Python, thread and mutex abstractions, a pretty neat memory pool, a task scheduler (like NSOperationQueue in Leopard), JSON support, settings management and the most over-engineered logging facility in the history of mankind.

Installation

Linux

cd Projects/Linux
./configure
make
make install

MacOS

Either

• do it the Linux way,
• open Projects/MacOS/Aspartame.xcodeproj and compile away, or
• use the prebuilt .framework or .dylib in Prebuilt in the download

Windows

Neither David nor I run Windows, but making a VS.NET project file should be trivial. Just make sure to define the macro ASPARTAME_DISABLE_MEMPOOL and optionally WITH_JSON.