ExpDigital have updated the Infinity API development toolkit to support VST 2.4.

The Infinity API is a free cross platform development kit designed for musical software development with specific focus on developing VST plugins. It is written in object oriented C++ with support for Mac OSX (PPC and Intel) and Windows.

New features:

• Added VST 2.4 Support
• Added drawing support for Composited windows on OSX
• Added PNG Image support
• Updated CKnob::onDoubleClick to send action event
• Fixed several documentation bugs / typos
• Improved windows GDI+ startup and shutdown to only occur during graphics object startup and shutdown
• Improved windows menu drawing code (should be much quicker with sub menus now)
• Improved windows font sizing (they are now true typographic Postscript point sizes now!)

Full feature list:

• Large collection of template containers
• Basic object type wrappers (strings, numbers etc)
• File handling (I/O streams), including XML
• Thread creation and management
• Fully featured font handling system
• Full alpha drawing system, including anti aliased line and text drawing
• Ability to create, manage and control heavy weight window objects
• Extensive set of lightweight user interface controls
• System clipboard, drag and drop and host interaction
• Alpha controllable menu system with ability to host images / sub menus cleanly
• Built in support for Targa, Jpeg and PNG images, no third party libraries required
• Midi event handling
• Audio buffer handling
• Built in audio file read and write (currently WAV and AIFF are supported)
• Audio computation tools
• Full host interaction including CPU and file system interrogation
• Structured exception handling
• Versatile object handling system
• Full type info system, enabling accurate run type analysis
• Command line feature compatible
• VST 2.4 plug-in wrappers
• All code 100% cross platform capable, supports Windows, Macintosh PPC and Macintosh Intel platforms
• Consistent naming and layout of code and every function documented
• Free under licence

OS: Windows / Mac Universal Binary

Format: Plug-in development source code

Created with: Custom C++ code

Copy protection: N/A

Cost: Free under license. Commercial licences are available to opt out of certain
licence conditions

Version: 1.0.1