Foundation Classes

Foundation Classes module contains data structures and services used by higher-level Open CASCADE Technology classes:

• Primitive types, such as Boolean, Character, Integer or Real;
• String classes that handle ASCII and Unicode strings;
• Collection classes that handle statically or dynamically sized aggregates of data, such as arrays, lists, queues, sets and hash tables (data maps).
• Classes providing commonly used Numerical Algorithms and basic linear algebra calculations (addition, multiplication, transposition of vectors and matrices, solving linear systems etc).
• Fundamental types representing physical Quantities and supporting date and time information;
• Primitive Geometry Types providing implementation of basic geometric and algebraic entities that define and manipulate elementary data structures.
• Exception classes that describe situations, when the normal execution of program is abandoned;

This module also provides a variety of general-purpose services, such as:

• Safe handling of dynamically created objects, ensuring automatic deletion of unreferenced objects (smart pointers);
• Configurable optimized memory manager increasing the performance of applications that intensively use dynamically created objects;
• Extended run-time type information (RTTI) mechanism maintaining a full type hierarchy and providing means to iterate over it;
• Encapsulation of C++ streams;
• Automated management of heap memory by means of specific allocators;
• Basic interpreter of expressions facilitating the creation of customized scripting tools, generic definition of expressions, etc.;
• Tools for dealing with configuration resource files and customizable message files facilitating multi-language support in applications;
• Progress indication and user break interfaces, giving a possibility even for low-level algorithms to communicate with the user in a universal and convenient way;
• and many others...

Please, see the details in Foundation Classes User's Guide.

See also: E-learning & Training.