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addons

openFrameworks addons are additional third party libraries that can be added to your projects to extend their functionality. Each addon page will include detailed instructions and the files needed for easily integration with openFrameworks.

The motivation behind addons is to the keep the main OF library small and manageable, while at the same time allowing for the addition of other functionality, and supporting other libraries. If you have ideas about other addons you would like to see implemented, or would like to add an addon of your own, please see the discussion forum.

OF FAT ships with addons already up and working, included is: 

  • ofxDirList (Theo Watson) which helps list out the content of a directory
  • ofxXmlSettings (Theo Watson) which wraps tinyXml to help load and save xml (useful for saving state settings of an application)
  • ofxOsc (Damian Stewart) which wraps oscpack to allow you to communicate to and from an openframeworks application using the OSC protocol
  • ofxOpenCv (Zachary Lieberman and Stefan Hechenberger) which wraps parts of intel’s opencv library for computer vision functionality. 
  • ofxNetwork (Theo Watson and Ars Electronica Futurelab) which contains cross platform network code for UDP and TCP communication, as well as multicast.
  • ofxThread (Theo Watson) contains code for cross platform thread management
  • ofxVectorMath (Chris Sugrue and Stefan Hechenberger) contains vector math objects, such as a vectors and matrices.
  • ofxVectorGraphics (Theo Watson) a wrapper to CreEPS which provides easy to use postscript output for openframeworks.
  • ofx3dModelLoader (Theo Watson) a wrapper for ___ which makes it possible to load and display 3ds models in openframeworks.