#A "toolbox" library used by other polygonal libraries (core)

Documentation

• API http://polygonal.github.com/doc/core/

Packages

The library includes the following packages:

event

• A library for handling events, with focus on boilerplate reduction and performance.
• See A fast notification system for event-driven design.
• See The Observer pattern

fmt

• Various helper functions for formatting numbers and objects.
• Supports sprintf syntax. See Using sprintf with Haxe.

io

• A fast Base64 encoder.
• Resource loading / mass loader (flash only)

log

• A simple logging framework.

macro

• A bunch of basic macros for generating classes at compile-time.

math

• Math helper functions.
• Fast 2D/3D vector and matrix math.
• Pseudorandom number generators (Park-Miller-Carta, MT19937)
• Trigonometric approximations.

sys

• Entity framework for component based architectures.

time

• Time-based updates, timeline, timed execution.

tween

• A tweening framework.

util

• Misc utility functions.

Installation

Install Haxe and run $ haxelib install polygonal-core from the console. This installs the polygonal-core library hosted on lib.haxe.org, which always mirrors the git master branch. From now on just compile with $ haxe ... -lib polygonal-core. If you want to test the latest beta build, you should pull the dev branch and add the src folder to the classpath via $ haxe ... -cp src.

Changelog

1.02 (released 2013-01-30)

• modified: change LogMessage.data type to Dynamic
• added: ClassUtil class
• added: Mathematics.int()
• fixed: EntityType + compilation server
• modified: Observable.mute -> muteType, unmute -> unmuteType (name clash with Entity)
• added: Mat33.setRotateX(), setRotateY()
• fixed: Timebase.gameTime
• fixed: some minor fixes for -D haxe3
• modified: restore draw/tick state when calling Entity.wakeup() after Entity.sleep()
• Timebase: use statics instead of singleton pattern

1.01 (released 2012-11-15)

• fixed: Mathematics.floor(), ceil(), fwrap() for neko, don't use Std.int() for cpp
• modified: keep dispatching Timebase updates when calling MainLoop.pause()
• modified: make de.polygonal.core.time.Delay cancelable
• added: math.RootSolver class
• modified: Entity: pass message sender when sending messages
• fixed: keep existing fields in macro.Version
• added: Entity.is() and Entity.isAny()
• fixed: minor tweening fixes, added tweening examples
• modified: Observable: consider group id in event filtering, use 30 bits for neko
• added: TimelineListener as an alternative to TimelineEvent
• modified: optimized tweening performance
• added: Entity.iterator() to iterate over all children (non-recursive)
• modified: merge Observable.bindMulti() and Observable.bind() into Observable.bind(), fix group filtering
• fixed: ConfigXML: keep existing fields
• added: Timebase.fps
• modified: Entity: shorten names of frequently used methods
• modified: Entity: more precise recursive message propagation
• added: StringUtil.generateRandomKey()
• fixed: ObserverMacro for Haxe 2.11+
• added: RNORREXP (generate pseudo random normal and exponential variates)
• added: PropertyFile macro to turn a property file into a class
• modified: move macro package to util package
• added: Compile-time tokenization of Sprintf format string (thanks Zachary Dremann - github.com/Dr-Emann)
• modified: ParkMiller31 for all targets using haxe.Int32 (thanks Zachary Dremann - github.com/Dr-Emann)

1.00

• Initial version.