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• Audio
  • bah.portmidi
• Database
  • bah.database
    • bah.dbmsql
    • bah.dbmysql
    • bah.dbodbc
    • bah.postgresql
    • bah.dbsqlite
    • bah.dbxbase
• Graphics
  • bah.cairo
  • bah.graphviz
  • bah.libsvg
• GUI
  • bah.gtkmaxgui
    • bah.gtkwebgtkhtml
    • bah.gtkwebmozilla
  • wxMax
• Imaging
  • bah.exrloader
  • bah.freeimage
  • bah.rgbloader
• Math
  • bah.mapm
  • bah.mathtoolkit
  • bah.muparser
• Physics
  • bah.box2d
  • bah.chipmunk
• Internet
  • bah.clearsilver
  • bah.ftpparser
  • bah.libcurl
  • bah.libcurlSSL
• Miscellaneous
  • bah.maxunit
  • bah.realtimebattle
• System
  • bah.appstub
  • bah.boost
  • bah.crypto
  • bah.datetime
  • bah.fontconfig
  • bah.growl
  • bah.random
  • bah.volumes
• Text
  • bah.base64
  • bah.expat
  • bah.format
  • bah.libxml
    • bah.libxslt
  • bah.locale
  • bah.regex
  • bah.rtl
  • bah.tesseract

This module is intended as an optional replacement for the official BRL.appstub module on MacOS X, when non-Cocoa GUI compilation is required.

Specifically, the module was created with the wxMax module-suite in mind, since it won't run properly using the built-in appstub.

To use this instead of the official appstub, you need to compile your app with the following BMK option : -b bah.appstub

Convert your binary data to Base64 Strings and back again with this very handy module.

Useful if you need to embed binary data in XML

Boost is a collection of portable C++ source libraries intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications.

This BlitzMax module includes some of the boost core functionality, primarily for use with other modules.

Currently, this module doesn't expose any specific boost APIs, but is a requirement of the datetime and mathtoolkit modules.

Box2D is a 2D rigid body simulation library for games.
It features, continuous collision detection (CCD), contact callbacks, convex polyons and circles, multiple shapes per body, and lots more

A BlitzMax wrapper for Cairo , a 2D vector graphics library.
Fully documented, with examples.

It provides operations similar to the drawing operators of PostScript and PDF. Operations include stroking and filling cubic Bézier splines, transforming and compositing translucent images, and antialiased text rendering. All drawing operations can be transformed by any affine transformation (scale, rotation, shear, etc.)

Can output to Image, PDF and Postscript formats.

Notes for PPC Mac : You will also need to install an updated pixmap module which includes enhancements for big-endian pixmaps. Download -> pixmap.zip

Chipmunk is a fast cross-platform 2D Game Dynamics engine.

ClearSilver is a fast, powerful, templating system. It is designed to produce HTML, but can as easily be applied to code generation.

ClearSilver also comes equipped with its own CGI kit, which makes it incredbily simple to create your own standards-savvy BlitzMax CGI applications.

The module includes the ClearSilver (0.10.4) source, and documentation.

1.00

26-May-07

The Crypto module harnesses the power of the OpenSSL cryptography library to provide state-of-the-art encryption/decryption functionality to your BlitzMax applications.

The datetime module uses the boost C++ libraries to provide extensive date/time functionality to BlitzMax.

Specifically, it allows calculations based on dates, times, date/time periods, date/time durations, date iterators, time zones, and month/weekday name localization (with 74 language translations ready for use with the locale module).

As usual, the module is cross-platform and comes with extensive documentation and examples.

Requires :
The Boost module.

Notes :

1. To build the module, requires a modified verison of BMK. See here for more details.

1.00

01-Aug-07

This is the core module for a cross-platform Database Framework, which uses a consistent API to allow you to connect to a variety of different database types.

The Framework has support for executing queries directly, using prepare/execute statements, and transactioning.

On its own, this module doesn't do much. You will need to also install at least one of the database driver modules.

An mSQL (miniSQL) database driver module for the Database Framework.

Requires :
The Database Framework module.

1.01

10-Apr-07

• Modified for Win32 compile.

A MySQL database driver module for the Database Framework.

Requires :
The Database Framework module.
MySQL client libraries (v5+)

An ODBC database driver module for the Database Framework.

On Windows, the module links to libodbc32.
For Mac/Linux, the module includes the open-source iODBC library.

Requires :
The Database Framework module.

A PostgreSQL database driver module for the Database Framework.

Requires :
The Database Framework module.
PostgreSQL client libraries, v8+ (see docs for details)

1.03

11-Apr-07

• Fixed issue with mis-count of bound parameters.

• Added hasPrepareSupport() and hasTransactionSupport() methods.

An SQLite database driver module for the Database Framework.

The module includes the source for SQLite, which is compiled into your applications.

Requires:
The Database Framework module.

An Xbase database driver module for the Database Framework.

Xbase is a C++ class library compatible with .dbf, .ndx and .ntx files, which are used by dBase, Clipper, FoxPro, etc. compatible databases.
xbSQL is a wrapper for Xbase which adds SQL query support.

The module includes the source for both the Xbase and xbSQL libraries.

Requires:
The Database Framework module.

The Expat XML parser, wrapped up in a BlitzMax module.

Note : At the moment, this is basically only a stub for Graphviz support. I may, at a later date, properly implement this library.

The EXRLoader module adds BlitzMax support for OpenEXR images.

The module includes both support for the standard LoadPixmap image loading, as well as a more advanced API that allows configuring of the image/pixmap appearance.

As usual, the module is cross-platform, includes some examples, and basic documentation.

Notes :

1. Source only provided.
   You will need to "Build Modules" to use this. On Windows, that requires MinGW.
2. To build the module, requires a modified verison of BMK. See here for more details.

1.00

05-May-07

A Blitzmax wrapper for Fontconfig, a library for font customization and configuration.

The module introduces a new Font Loader to Blitzmax.
This enables you to specify a font name when using LoadImageFont and fontconfig will search the system for a font matching that name.

Note: as of 1.08, the Fontconfig library has changed its configuration method. A configuration file (font.conf) is now used to define some default settings, like location of font dirs etc. An app will try to load this file when it first starts.
Fontconfig also caches differently now. By default it will attempt to cache font details in the user's home/.fontconfig folder. The first time a fontconfig app runs it will check all the fonts and cache their details. This may result in a delay before the app continues. The next time the app is started it will load the cache instead, resulting in normal start-times.

1.08

09-Nov-07

• Updated to latest version (2.4.92).
• Fixes issue running on 1.26 of BlitzMax.
• Now uses font.conf to define font settings.

• Linux version now uses system libfontconfig.

The Format module introduces C-style printf formatting to BlitzMax.

With it, you can format strings and numbers, easily and efficiently.

Requires:
The RegEx module.

The FreeImage module adds BlitzMax support for loading and saving of a large number of different formats, using the open source FreeImage library.

With this module you can load : GIF, BMP, DDS, EXR, HDR, ICO, IFF, JNG, JPG, JPEG-2000, KOALA, LBM, Kodak, MNG, PCS, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, Photoshop (PSD), Fax G3, SGI, RAS, TARGA, TIFF, WBMP, XBM and XPM.

And save : BMP, EXR, GIF, HDR, ICO, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TARGA, TIFF, WBMP and XPM.

As well as apply a range of image manipulation on the images.

Images can be loaded using the standard LoadPixmap() function, or for advanced use, with LoadFreeImage().

The FTP list parser module is designed to process directory listings retrieved from an FTP server.

It currently understands the list output for Unix / Linux, Enterprise Unix, VMS, MVS, NT, Netware, OS2 and OS400 FTP servers.

Requires :
The RegEx module

1.01

06-Aug-07

• Fixed problem on Win32, which has a different newline.

This is the BlitzMax module for Growl, a Mac OS X system for posting notifications to users.

A replacement for the BlitzMax linux FLTK GUI module using GTK+ instead, providing a much nicer / standard GUI experience.
You can compile any GUI app using this module with only a minor tweak (to use either Framework bah.gtkmaxgui or Import bah.gtkmaxgui) .
The IDE is also *much* better running in GTK than FLTK.

To include an HTML View Gadget in your application you will need either of the two modules listed below, with which you should then add an appropriate Import to your application. Eg. Import bah.gtkwebmozilla)

Requires :
MaxGUI
gtk+2 dev packages (for compiling)

1.19

25-Apr-07

• Fixed x, y coords returned by Panel MouseMove events. Now calculated relative to parent widget.

• Fixed generation of GADGETSELECT on TreeView creation.
• Fixed loss of next text change event after setting empty text field to empty.

An HTML View gadget for the GTK GUI module, using the GTKHTML widget.

Requires:
The gtkmaxgui module.
libgtkhtml 3.8 / dev

1.02

06-Dec-06

• ProcessURL changes to use banks. [Simon Armstrong]

An HTML View gadget for the GTK GUI module using the GTK Mozilla Embed widget.

Requires:
The gtkmaxgui module.
Firefox / mozilla with libgtkembedmoz

1.02

06-Dec-06

• Added Free() method.

Graphviz is a graph visualization library which enables the representation of structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks.

This BlitzMax module provides a means of displaying Graphviz graphs interactively through BlitzMax's Max2D interface (OpenGL / DirectX), and provides facilities to pan, zoom, select graph parts, as well as create in-memory graphs using a simple API.

As usual, this module is extensively documented, with examples, and is cross-platform capable.

Requires:
The Expat module.

This is the BlitzMax module for libcurl, the multi-protocol file transfer library.

The libcurl module adds enhanced support for the protocols FTP, HTTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, and FILE.

libcurl also supports HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication, file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!

The Blitzmax libcurl module also includes c-ares, a library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously.

As usual, this module is fully cross-platform with extensive documentation and some basic examples.

This module does not handle SSL encryption (FTPS, HTTPS, etc). For that, you should use the libcurlSSL module.

This is the SSL-enabled BlitzMax module for libcurl, the multi-protocol file transfer library.

The libcurl module adds enhanced support for the protocols FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, and FILE.

libcurl also supports HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication, file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!

The Blitzmax libcurlSSL module also includes c-ares, a library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously.

As usual, this module is fully cross-platform with extensive documentation and some basic examples.

Requires:
OpenSSL - This provides the secure SSL functionality. It comes as standard on Linux and Mac OS X systems. Win32 users can find a binary distribution from here. (The module includes headers for Win32, so only the "light" package is required.)

A BlitzMax wrapper for libsvg and libsvg-cairo.

Please note, this is released under the LGPL 2 license.

Adds loading and rendering of .svg files to the Cairo module.
Since it extends the main Cairo Type, you can use all of the Cairo drawing methods with SVGs.

Requires both the Cairo module and libxml module.

1.02

06-Dec-06

• Updates to cvs versions of libsvg and libsvg-cairo (1 Dec 2006)

A BlitzMax wrapper for the Libxml2 XML parser library, an industrial-strength XML parser.
Fully documented, with tutorials and examples.

If you are happy compiling Modules in BlitzMax you can download the smaller libxml_src.zip, which does not include pre-compiled code for the three platforms.

A BlitzMax wrapper for the Libxslt library, an XML language to define transformation for XML.

This module allows for the execution of XSLT scripts on XML from within your BlitzMax applications.

An example of a useful XSLT might be to convert a Collada definition into a .b3d format file. ;-)

Fully documented, with tutorials and examples.

Requires:
The Libxml module.

A Localization module for BlitzMax.

Makes it easy to add multi-language support for your apps.
The module is ISO-692 savvy, supporting 190+ 2 and 3-letter ISO language codes.
Most of the languages also have their "native" script equivalent (like Deutsch for "de"), handy for displaying a language menu in the native languages, rather than all in English.

Also included is a utility called BLFBuilder (source included), designed to create and maintain the "blf" format files that the module uses. (the files are XML based, but an editor makes it a breeze to maintain them).

Requires:
The Libxml module.
MaxGUI to compile the BLFBuilder utility.

MAPM is an Arbitrary Precision Math library which allows you to process numbers with much greater precision than normal integers or doubles. In fact, MAPM support numbers with up to 2^31 digits.
That's 2,147,483,647 digits.

The Math Toolkit module implements Boost's math and statistical distribution utilities, including univariate, continuous and discrete distributions.

Requires:
The Boost module.

The muParser module is capable of parsing mathematical expressions.
It is very fast and highly customizable.

A unit testing module based loosly on Junit.
Useful if you want a framework for regression testing. Simple implementation, easy to use.

Portmidi is a cross-platform library for real time input and output of MIDI data. This module wraps up the library into an easy to use set of Types and callbacks.

With it you have access to input and output MIDI streams, as well as the ability to send and receive SysEx data.

Notes :

To build the module, requires a modified verison of BMK. See here for more details.

1.00

28-May-07

The Random module is a drop-in replacement for BRL.Random that uses the SFMT (SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister) pseudorandom number generator to produce cross-platform random number sequences.

(the official Random module doesn't guarantee that numbers from the same seed on different platforms will have the same sequence)

Notes :

To build the module, requires a modified verison of BMK. See here for more details.

1.01

29-May-07

• Automatically initializes via SeedRnd() if required.

RealTimeBattle is a programming game, in which robots controlled by programs are fighting each other. The goal is to destroy the enemies, using the radar to examine the environment and the cannon to shoot.

This module allows you to create robots written in BlitzMax, to compete with other robots in the RealTimeBattle arena.

Requires:
RealTimeBattle package for running your robots.
Linux, or Windows with cygwin.

1.00

15-Aug-06

The Regular Expression module uses the open source PCRE library to add support for string search and replace using regular expressions.

As usual, the module is cross-platform, comes with some examples and full documentation.

The RGBLoader module allows the loading into BlitzMax of SGI RGB format images.

Supports RGBA, RGB, BW, and Greyscale with Alpha.
Currently only handles RLE compressed files. Non-compressed supprt to be added shortly.

Simply Import the module, and it is auto-magically enabled, so you can use LoadPixmap etc normally.

1.00

22-Apr-07

The RTL module utilises the fribidi library to provide Unicode Bidirectional Text support to BlitzMax.
This allows you to create Strings of Arabic, Hebrew and other right-to-left scripts, and display them correctly on the screen.

The Tesseract module adds an OCR engine to BlitzMax.
It can recognise 200-300dpi page scans of text in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish.

A small cross-platform module for retrieving volume and directory information for the current system.

Also allows standard access to various user directories such as Home, Documents, Desktop and Application Data (Support on Mac).
The Application directory is where apps can store user-specific resources and such-like.

wxMax is a BlitzMax language binding for the wxWidgets toolkit.

Struggling with MaxGUI? Perhaps this is a viable alternative for your cross-platform BlitzMax GUI applications?

Because the module is bigger than all my other modules put together (as of 7/Sep/2007, there's 25000+ lines of bmx, and 7000+ lines of cpp glue), I've decided to locate it on its own repository.

The repository supports issue-tracking, and source control, and I've even set up a discussion group for support and development.

Follow the link on the right to head there now!