ExpDigital launches Infinity API

ExpDigital has announced the launch of the Infinity API, a free cross platform development kit designed for musical software development with specific focus on developing VST plugins. It is written in object oriented C++ with support for Mac OS X (PPC and Intel) and Windows.

Its major features are:

• Large collection of template containers.
• Basic object type wrappers (strings, numbers etc.).
• File handling (I/O streams), including XML.
• Thread creation and management.
• Fully featured font handling system.
• Full alpha drawing system, including anti aliased line and text drawing.
• Ability to create, manage and control heavy weight window objects.
• Extensive set of lightweight user interface controls.
• System clipboard, drag and drop and host interaction.
• Alpha controllable menu system with ability to host images / sub menus cleanly.
• Built in support for TARGA and JPEG images, no third party libraries required, plus PNG support coming soon.
• Midi event handling.
• Audio buffer handling.
• Built in audio file read and write (currently WAV and AIFF are supported).
• Audio computation tools.
• Full host interaction including CPU and file system interrogation.
• Structured exception handling.
• Versatile object handling system.
• Full type info system, enabling accurate run type type analysis.
• Command line feature compatible.
• VST 2.3 plug-in wrappers.
• All code 100% cross platform capable, supports Windows, Macintosh PPC and Macintosh Intel platforms.
• Consistent naming and layout of code and every function documented.
• Completely free.