Basic Data Types and Structures

Classic API Data

The classic API provides various mathematical data types and functions:

• Primitive Data Types Manual (Classic)
• Mathematical Functions Manual (Classic)
• Vector Manual (Classic)
• Matrix Manual (Classic)

More advanced data types of the classic API are:

• String Manual (Classic)
• Filename Manual
• BaseLink Manual
• BaseTime Manual

Custom data types of the classic API are created using iCustomDataType and CustomDataTypeClass.

For an overview see Classic API Data Types

MAXON API Data & Memory

The MAXON API provides various mathematical data types and functions:

• Basic Data Types
• Mathematical Functions
• Vectors
• Matrices

The MAXON API also provides means to allocate low-level memory. In most cases this should not be necessary.

• Memory Allocation

More advanced data types of the MAXON API are:

• Strings & Texts
• Time-based Types
• UUID Manual

New MAXON API data types are can be created with MAXON Data Type. Information on a given data type is obtained using DataType Manual.

For an overview see MAXON API Data Types.