The **MUtilities** library is a collection of routines and classes to extend the [*Qt cross-platform framework*](http://qt-project.org/). It contains various convenience and utility functions as well as wrappers for OS-specific functionalities. The library was originally created as a "side product" of the [**LameXP**](http://lamexp.sourceforge.net/) application: Over the years, a lot of code, **not** really specific to *LameXP*, had accumulated in the *LameXP* code base. Some of that code even had been used in other projects too, in a "copy & paste" fashion – which had lead to redundancy and much complicated maintenance. In order to clean-up the LameXP code base, to eliminate the ugly redundancy and to simplify maintenance, the code in question has finally been refactored into the **MUtilities** (aka "MuldeR's Utilities for Qt") library. This library now forms the foundation of *LameXP* and [*other OpenSource projects*](https://github.com/lordmulder).
The *MUtilities* project directory is structured as follows:
*`bin/`– compiled library files (static or shared), link those files in projects that use the MUtilities library
*`docs/`– programming interface documentation, generated with Doxygen tool
*`etc/`– miscellaneous files, everything that doesn't fit in anywhere else
*`include/`– public header files, include this directory in projects that use the MUtilities library
*`obj/`– object code files, intermediate files generated during the build process
*`res/`– resouce files, required for building the MUtilities library
*`src/`– source code files, required for building the MUtilities library (third-party code in `src/3rd_party/`)
*`test/`– unit tests, based on Google Test framework
*`tmp/`– temporary files, automatically generated during the build process
# API Documentation
A fully-fledged documentation of the *MUtilities* programming interface (API) is available thanks to [*Doxygen*](http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/). Please see [**`docs/index.html`**](docs/index.html) for details!
This library is free software. It is released under the terms of the [*GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Version 2.1*](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html).
