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-# Libxdf – a C++ library for loading [XDF](https://github.com/sccn/xdf/wiki/Specifications "Extensible Data Format") files
+# LibXDF – a C++ library for loading XDF files
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+LibXDF is a cross-platform C++ library for loading multimodal signals stored in [XDF](https://github.com/sccn/xdf/wiki/Specifications "Extensible Data Format") files.
+It is used in the biosignal viewing application [SigViewer](https://github.com/cbrnr/sigviewer) and the LSL application [XDFStreamer](https://github.com/labstreaminglayer/App-XDFStreamer/) and can also be integrated into other C++ applications.
-* [Introduction](#intro)
-* [Quick-Start Guide](#quick)
- * [Download](#download)
-* [Documentation](#doc)
-* [Reference](#reference)
-* [Support](#support)
+## Quick start
-## Introduction
+The source code and prebuilt binaries are available as [releases](https://github.com/Yida-Lin/libxdf/releases) (you may need to expand the list of assets to find the downloads).
-Libxdf is a cross-platform C++ library for loading multimodal, multi-rate signals stored in [XDF](https://github.com/sccn/xdf/wiki/Specifications "Extensible Data Format") files.
-Libxdf is used in the biosignal viewing application [SigViewer](https://github.com/cbrnr/sigviewer) and the LSL application [XDFStreamer](https://github.com/labstreaminglayer/App-XDFStreamer/). It can also be integrated into other C++ applications.
-
-Libxdf is open-source, free, and actively maintained.
-
-## Quick-Start Guide
-
-### Download
-
-* Find Source and Prebuilt Binaries on the [releases page](https://github.com/Yida-Lin/libxdf/releases).
- * You may need to expand the list of Assets to find the downloads.
-* For Linux Debian (Ubuntu) users: `sudo dpkg -i libxdf-{version}-Linux.deb`
-* For Windows and Mac users: simply extract the archive somewhere convenient.
-
-### Building libxdf
-
-If the release does not have assets for your platform or they do not work for you for some other reason, then
-Libxdf can be conveniently built either using `qmake` or `cmake`. Configuration files for both build tools are included with the source.
-
-To build with cmake from command prompt / terminal:
+If a particular release does not have assets for your platform or they do not work for you for some other reason, then
+libXDF can be built with [CMake](https://cmake.org) using the following two commands:
```sh
-cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${PWD}/build/install
-cmake --build build --config Release -j --target install
+cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${PWD}/build/install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
+cmake --build build -j --target install
```
-`cmake` builds a static library by default, but you can build a shared library
-by setting the
-[`BUILD_SHARED_LIBS`](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/BUILD_SHARED_LIBS.html)
-variable (e.g. add `-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON` to the first cmake command above).
+This builds and installs a static library in `./build/install`, but you can build a shared library by adding `-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON` to the first CMake command.
-### Use in conjunction with [SigViewer](https://github.com/cbrnr/sigviewer)
-Libxdf is a built-in component of [SigViewer](https://github.com/cbrnr/sigviewer). If you wish to build SigViewer from source, follow these steps:
+## Integrating into C++ applications
-1. Download `xdf.h` and `libxdf.a` from the [release](https://github.com/Yida-Lin/libxdf/releases) page.
-2. Copy `xdf.h` into `sigviewer/external/include`
-3. Copy `libxdf.a` into `sigviewer/external/lib`
-4. Build and run Sigviewer
+If you want to use libXDF in C++ applications, follow these steps:
+1. Install a prebuilt binary release or build libXDF from source as described above.
+2. If you use CMake, add the following lines to your `CMakeLists.txt` to find and link against libXDF:
-
+ ```CMake
+ find_package(libxdf REQUIRED
+ HINTS ${XDF_INSTALL_ROOT}
+ PATH_SUFFIXES share
+ )
+ target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}
+ PRIVATE
+ # ... other dependencies
+ XDF::xdf
+ )
+ ```
-Example: SigViewer using _libxdf_ to display signals in an XDF file.
+ If `libxdf` is not in a standard system library location, pass `-DXDF_INSTALL_ROOT=path/to/libxdf` to specify its path.
+3. In your source code, `#include "xdf.h"`, instantiate an object of the `Xdf` class, and call the `load_xdf` method.
-### Use in other C++ applications
+ For example:
-1. Install a prebuilt binary release or build from source as above.
-2. For CMake users:
- * In your project's CMakeLists.txt, use the following snippet:
- ```CMake
- find_package(libxdf REQUIRED
- HINTS ${XDF_INSTALL_ROOT}
- PATH_SUFFIXES share
- )
- target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}
- PRIVATE
- # ... other dependencies
- XDF::xdf
- )
- ```
- * If the libxdf package was installed or extracted into a folder other than a standard system library folder, you will have to pass a cmake command line argument to indicate where to find it: `-DXDF_INSTALL_ROOT=path/to/libxdf`
-3. In your source code, `#include "xdf.h"`, instantiate an object of the `Xdf` class and call the `load_xdf` method.
+ ```C++
+ #include "xdf.h"
-Example:
+ Xdf XDFdata;
+ XDFdata.load_xdf("example.xdf");
+ ```
-```C++
-#include "xdf.h"
+Functions must be called in a specific order. For example, calling `subtractMean` before loading data leads to undefined behavior.
-Xdf XDFdata;
-XDFdata.load_xdf("C:/example.xdf");
-```
-
-To resample the signals to e.g. 100Hz:
-
-```C++
-XDFdata.resample(100);
-```
-
-The functions in libxdf must be called following a certain order. For instance, if you call the `subtractMean` function before you load any data, it will cause undefined behavior.
-
-The recommended order is shown here. Only `load_xdf` is mandatory.
+The recommended order is shown below:
```C++
XDFdata.load_xdf(std::string filepath);
@@ -104,31 +62,16 @@ XDFdata.resample(int sampleRate);
XDFdata.freeUpTimeStamps();
```
-Libxdf depends on third party libraries [Pugixml v1.8](http://pugixml.org/) for XML parsing and [Smarc](http://audio-smarc.sourceforge.net/) for resampling.
-## Documentation
-Detailed documentation was generated via [Doxygen](http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/index.html) and is available [here](docs/html/class_xdf.html).
+## Documentation
-## SigViewer Online Repo
-SigViewer Online Repository is [here](repository/Updates.xml).
+Detailed documentation is available [here](docs/html/class_xdf.html).
-## Reference
-If you use this code in your project, please cite:
-```
-Yida Lin, Clemens Brunner, Paul Sajda and Josef Faller. SigViewer: Visualizing Multimodal Signals Stored in XDF (Extensible Data Format) Files. The 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
-```
-Direct link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.06333
-Bibtex format:
-```
-@article{lin2017sigviewer,
- title={SigViewer: visualizing multimodal signals stored in XDF (Extensible Data Format) files},
- author={Lin, Yida and Brunner, Clemens and Sajda, Paul and Faller, Josef},
- journal={arXiv},
- pages={arXiv--1708},
- year={2017}
-}
-```
+## References
+
+If you use libXDF in your project, please consider citing the following [conference paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.06333):
+
+> Yida Lin, Clemens Brunner, Paul Sajda and Josef Faller. *SigViewer: Visualizing Multimodal Signals Stored in XDF (Extensible Data Format) Files.* The 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
-## Support
-[Email author](mailto:yida.lin@outlook.com) or report a new [issue](https://github.com/Yida-Lin/libxdf/issues).
+LibXDF depends on third party libraries [pugixml](http://pugixml.org/) for XML parsing and [Smarc](http://audio-smarc.sourceforge.net/) for resampling.