Common Utilities - simple-entertainment/simplicity GitHub Wiki
Useful stuff that isn't really specific to one area or another.
Many of the APIs in simplicity use categories as a means of grouping objects. The standard categories are defined in common/Category.h.
The AddressEquals class is a predicate that can be used to check for address equality. The main use case I have found for this is when trying to find an object with a particular address in a vector of smart pointers. Here is an example of it's use:
std::vector<std::shared_ptr<Entity>> entities;
// Add entities to the vector...
Entity* entity = /* Some entity */
find_if(entities.begin(), entities.end(), AddressEquals<Entity>(*entity));
If you don't want your class to be copyable then just extend NonCopyable:
class MyClass : private NonCopyable
{
...
};
MyClass a;
MyClass b = a; // Compile-time error! Copy constructor is private.
MyClass c;
c = a; // Compile-time error! Copy assignment operator is private.
The Timer class provides a simple but high precision timer.
Timer timer;
// Do stuff...
float elapsedTime = timer.getElapsedTime() // Retrieve the amount of time it took to do stuff (in seconds)
You can even pause and reset the timer:
timer.pause();
// Do stuff you don't want to time...
timer.resume();
// Finished timing something, reset the timer for re-use.
timer.reset();