Open Plug-ins For Visual Effects / News: Recent posts

Two optional suites have been added to the API support time lines and progress meters.The API and plugin support files have been re-released.

Also, a Host Support library has been implemented to ease the adoption of OFX.

The license in the C++ support library has been changed from LGPL to a BSD style license.

Bug fixes and changes were made that brought the files up to date with The Foundry's internal state of the support layer. This has made it more robust.

A C++ support library that skins the raw openfx API has been written and released. It still needs some work, but it creates functioning plug-ins.

The version is currently 0.2.

A new release has been generated. This is a pure documentation release, correcting and clarifying the doxygen based documentation. The following changes were made to the header files...

include/ofxImageEffect.h

• Clarified the use of mandated parameters in the retimer and transition contexts,
• kOfxImageEffectPluginRenderThreadSafety and kOfxImageEffectPropClipPreferencesSlaveParam were missing from the list of properties that a plugin descriptor has... read more

A documentation release, recording the changes to the kOfxImageEffectActionGetFramesNeeded action, so that plugins can request non contiguous frame ranges.

1.0D1 has been released. 'D' standing for documentation changes. See the release notes.

Version 1.0 has been released, finally, hooray!

It is identical to 1.0 RC9

A few minor but important tweaks and a few bug fixes.

Three new properties and a slight change to a function signature. Then that's it, 1.0 here we come.

This has bundled up the resource documentation, the resource DTD, definition of infinite RoDs and examples to show these.

It is binary compatible with RC6.

ofx.dtd in the include directory has had a first draft completed. A simple example file exists in Examples/XML/example.xml It is documented both inside the dtd file and in the doxygen generated html

Please look at it and left bruno know if he is doing the right thing.

It's all been moved to SourceForge! The OpenFX headers and examples are in CVS and I have made releases of them, as well as the doxygen documentation.

There is a mailing list available for openfx developers as well.

The http://openfx.sourceforge.net website is still a bit sucky. I need to work on it.

OpenFX has been moved from The Foundry's website (http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/OFX) to SourceForge, allowing CVS access, mailing lists and all other sorts of goodness to happen.