I’ve been fiddling with OpenFrameworks for a while. If you don’t know it, OpenFrameworks is a C++ framework for creative coding, used by people working with new media art and such.

Since release 0.06 (the current release) OpenFrameworks is built on top of Poco, a general-purpose class library for C++ that is really nifty - it’s almost like being back in a decent programming language. In Poco one of the fundamental classes is Poco::Util::Application - the base class for building applications. It is not used by OpenFrameworks, instead OpenFrameworks has their own ofBaseApp.

What I did was to combine the two into something that is both a Poco Application and an OpenFrameworks App.

If anybody want to use it, just grab it at http://bridell.com/files/PocoApp.003.zip and play away. This version should run out the box in OF 0.06 on Code::Blocks on Windows, but if you just copy the code over to an “EmptyExample” copy on your setup you shoule be good to go on other platforms as well, I think.

If you have linker problems, so did I, but things got better. See this thread on the OF forum. The trick seems to be the -liphlpapi linker option and sometimes shuffling the order in which the Poco libs are linked in. Hey, it’s C++.