CPP library that does what other libraries don't

In my programmer's life, often, I need to write my own libraries to do something more or less complex that cpp does not handle in easy mode. For example, to find files or directory you need to handle manually recursively, search filter, case sensitive and other logic depends of kind of search, for that, I create a few group of functions that can search, filter in name, filter in extension, recursive, select files of folder, set callback for progress, and return directly the result as list, all in only one api call. So, dpplib is an extension of cpp that helps to simplify use of base classes, containers ecc of CPP STL.

Dependencies:

dpplib is based on C++20 and can be used also on C++17, for fully funtionality support you need to have boost al least 1.74.

Features:

• Cross compile library: can be complied on Windows, Linux and Wasm (with emscripten but no network support).
• Can be complied as static or shared library.
• Qt framework extension addons.
• Network implementations of REST client, tcp and udp sever, uri manipulation.
• Based on cmake.

Base modules:

Name	Use	Info
DChrono	Time formatting and conversion functions
DCsv	Easy read csv strings, read fileds, convert to vector	Can be used as stand-alone lib
DLog	Easy create logging with color support. Static mode (only printout), or class mode that support formatting, log level, auto delete by numbers of files or by size	Can be used as stand-alone lib
DPath	Contains a lot of functions for list copy, move, count, delete multiple files or folders, recursively, filtering by name and extension. Extension change, file age check, permissions...
DPathWatcher	An usefull class to monitor files or folders about changes, Sync or async mode
DPreferences	Class for store preferences as a tree in a json file
DSetiings	A little extension for DPreferences that create a settings structure for an app and set data dir, log dir, station name, station id and last status string
DShell	Process start sync/async, machine shutdown	Qt extention addon
DString	All string manipulation functions that you can think: trim, cut, remove, compare, contains, starts with, end with, number conversion, format... all case sensitive controlled. String list base manipulation.
DStringGrid	Class for manipulate a string matrix using rows columns, cells. Load and save CSV format.
DSyncFile	A simple class to easy sync 2 files by last write date
DSyncWatcher	Extends use of DSyncFile adding a thread based watching for automatic sync a list couples of source and dest files to be synched (with callbacks)
DTree	A class to rappresent a tree object with helper functions for easy read primitive or string fields. Can load and save to json format.
DUpdate	A class that can handle a repository for app update and can automatically do the upgrade (also if program is running)	Form now only folder repository is support, needs to add ftp, and https support
DValue	A class that store a list of string values used as returned values by some class in this lib.	Need to be improved with generic template for storing any kind of data.
DVector	Vector helpers functions to easy manipulate vectors: split, join, remove duplicate extract key or value from map.
DWindow	Is a DPreferences use for store gui window position and size.

Network modules:

Name	Use	Info
DNetwork	For now only GetHostName()
DRestClient	Class to create a complete fully functionally REST Client
DTcpServer	Class to create a TCP server	Not complete
DUdpServer	Class to create an UDP server
DUri	Class for manipulating uri: encode, decode, extract parts, compose, validate...

Qt modules

Name	Use	Info
DFormLog	QDialog implementation that extends DLog  functionality with a viewer.
DQApp	QApplication helper: for now only function is setStyleSheetFromFile() that can apply a style sheet to all application loading it from file
DQCheckBoxDelegate	QStyledItemDelegate implementation that adds a check box to a QListWidget family controls
DQLabel	QLabel implementation that adds double click support
DQProcess	QProcess implementations that adds: Handling of multple instances of same process . Callbacks for process ended and data present on stdout/stdin/stderr streams
DQProgressBar	QProgressBar implementation that adds progress step handling
DQProgressBarDelegate	QStyledItemDelegate implementation that adds a progress bar to a QListWidget family controls
DQShell	DShell extension that use QProcess and  adds ShowInFolder() api that open a file manager window and automatically select the file/folder
DQSpinnerWidget	Widget that shows a rotating spinner
DQSpinnerWidgetDelegate	QStyledItemDelegate implementation that adds a DQSpinnerWidget to a QListWidget family controls
DQWidget	A set of helper functions for widgets: QGridLayout: easy add, remove contents. QTabWidget: find by name.
DQWindow	A set of helper functions for windows and dialogs: Enable/disable layout and its content. Save and restore window position and size. Easy show info dialog.
DSplahScreen	QSplashScreen implementation that adds a usefull progress bar

Dependencies:

boost -> need Qt -> optional: if Qt is found in system, Qt features are compiled. Set DPPLIB_BUILD_QT=OFF to disable network -> optional: network features are compiled by default. Set DPPLIB_BUILD_NET=OFF to disable

How to build:

Install or download and build boost.

Go to libdpp folder

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..

build -j4

or simply load CmakeLists.txt file in Qt Creator IDE

How to add to your project: