Samples

Subsystem ASYNCH

· AsynchCallback – Using the default asynch device with a callback function

· AsynchDevice – Creating your own asynch device

· AsynchFile – Mixing the asynch and generic file interfaces

· AsynchPolling – Using the default asynch device in polling mode

· AsynchStream – Working with the asynchronous stream

· DynamicStream – Working with the dynamic stream

Subsystem BIGFILE

· BigFile - Using the bigfile object in code after it was generated by the big file cruncher

Subsystem COMM

· HostInfo – Getting network information with hostinfo object

· Socket – Using Gear’s multiplatform socket object

Subsystem COMPRESSION

· Bitstream – Using the low-level bitstream interface

· HuffmanTree – Constructing your own Huffman tree

· StringCompressor – Using the string compression tool

· ZLib – Using the low-level ZLib compression (preferable to use with zlib device, see DeviceManager)

Subsystem CONSOLE

· ConsoleOut – Changing hooks and printing with Gear’s console output function

Subsystem CONTAINER

· BitVector – Modifying a bit vector’s content and printing it to output

· CircularBuffer – Managing data in a circular buffer

· DList – Using Gear’s embedded double linked list

· Algorithms – Overview of Gear’s algorithms on containers (ForEach, Sort and Unique)

· Algorithms 2 – Overview of Gear’s algorithms on containers (Mismatch, Transform, Count, CountIf, Fill, Copy)

· ContainerInterface – Implementing your own container interface, managing memory allocation and assertion

· MBufs – Attaching data to MBufs and linking them

Subsystem CORE

· Assert – replacing Gear’s default assertion function

· Endian – swapping bytes by casting and in more complex structures

· Error – working with Gear’s error codes

· Functor – Creating your own Gear-compatible functors and using the default binding functor

· Intrinsic – Simple operation on bits

· Notifiers – Using Gear’s dynamic notifier

· Platform – Overview of platform specific macros to get information on hardware

· StatCounter – Statistic counter to use in debug (code will disappear in release)

· StopWatch – usage of Gear’s stopwatch, usually to measure performance

· SwapByte – Swapping bytes manually (as opposed to automatic swapping with Gear’s endian casting)

· Tagmarker – Overview of Gear’s tag marker, used to track information on memory allocation

· Time – Tracking time using milliseconds and microseconds

Subsystem DBGHELP

· CallStackTrace – Enumerating the modules and functions relevant to the call stack

· DbgTool – Useful macros for debug-specific code and conditional breakpoints

· Demangler – Demangling symbols on different compilers

· MapFileReader – Interpreting the debug map file

· DebugSymbols – Using Gear’s symbol database to better understand debugging info

Subsystem DEVICE

· BlockdiskDevice – Creating your own block disk device

· DeviceManager – Managing registered devices, using device names, creating and opening files

· DeviceAlias – Creating aliases for device names (including file names) that are used often

· MemFileDevice – Creating and using a device that emulates a file in memory

Subsystem LOGGING

· GenericLogger – Using Gear’s logger, useful for logging debug information

· MemoryLogger – Logging memory allocations

Subsystem MATH

· CollisionDetection – Collision detection between a plane, a straight line and a rectangular prism

· Hash – Using the different hashing methods implemented in Gear

· MathBaseType – Demonstration of the more obscure math functions

· Matrix – Operations on matrixes (inverse, determinant…)

· Quaternion – Operations on quaternions (rotation with quaternion)

· Vector – Operations on vectors

Subsystem MEMORY

· MemAlloc – Allocating and de-allocating with a marker (GEAR_GET_MARKER macro)

· MemAlloc 2 – Creating your allocators and getting information on them (Fixed Allocator and DL Malloc)

· MemAuto – Using the GEAR_AUTO_... macros to reduce amount of code in a given class

· MemDebug – Tracing leaks and overflow

· MemHook – Using a memory hook to change allocation methods for a given object

· MemInterface – Creating your own memory allocator using Gear’s interface

· MemoryBlockProvider – Allocating memory blocks and treat them as a single bigger memory allocation

· MemPageMarker - Getting info on allocator used and memory allocated for objects

· ObjectPool – Allocating object from a pool, reducing overhead

Subsystem PATTERN

· ClassFactory – Instantiation of a class using its literal name and a placeholder in the memory buffer

· ClassFactory 2 – Same as ClassFactory but with templates

· DynamicType – Declaring a dynamic type root and using the derivation tests

· RefCountedPtr – Managing object destruction with a reference counting pointer

· Singleton – Declaration and instantiation of a singleton object

Subsystem SERIALIZATION

· BinarySerializer – Serialization data in a file (binary content)

· ContainerSerialization – Setting a device for a serializer and using operator << to serialize containers

· GearStringSerialization – Serializing strings

· ObjectSerialization – Implementing serialization in your own objects

· TextSerializer – Serialization data in a file (text content)

Subsystem STREAM

· StdStream – Using the I/O stream to write and read from a file

Subsystem STRING

· GearString – Different GEAR methods for string creation and manipulation

· Str – Different GEAR methods for string manipulation

· StringTagDb – Adding a string in a database and refer it by its hash value

· Tokenizer – Using point of references (tokens) to manipulate string separations

Subsystem THREAD

· AdaptiveLock – Using Gear’s adaptive lock (Spin/Sleep lock) (blocking locks, semaphores are almost identical)

· Autolock – Using Gear’s Autolock (usually the best way)

· ConditionVariables – Using Gear’s Condition Variable

· Events – Using Gear’s Events

· RWLock – Managing Readers and Writers on data, like different engines having to manipulate it

· TLS (thread local storage) - Using a common index to access thread-specific data

Subsystem TRAITS

· IsDerived – Template trait to find out if an object is derived from another

· RemovePointer – Removes pointer from an object and returns the object itself (but does not dereference)

· TypeConverters – Specific type casting