ATF Documentation

Wiki-based

Most of ATF's documentation is wiki-based:

• ATF Getting Started gives a high-level overview and downloading instructions.
• ATF Videos introduce you to ATF at a high level.
• ATF Tutorials help programmers learn to write ATF applications.
• ATF Programmer's Guide is our Guide to programming ATF.
• ATF Reference lists reference items, such as the ATF Glossary.

Downloadable

These downloadable documents cover more focused topics. They are also available in ATF release packages in the ATF/Docs directory.

Document	Updated in Release	Version Date	Description
ATF API Reference	3.9	29Jan15	ATF API Reference (CHM)
ATF Tech Talk PowerPoint		14May13	A presentation that provides an introduction to Authoring Tools Framework
ATF Programmer’s Guide: Document Object Model (DOM)	3.7	28Jan14	A comprehensive guide to the ATF Document Object Model (DOM); read DOM in a Nutshell before this. Also available in Japanese.
ATF Curve Editor User and Programming Guide	3.7	28Jan14	A guide to using the ATF Curve Editor component and programming it
ATF Qt Comparison	3.7	28Jan14	Compares ATF and Qt for developing game tools

Searching

The ATF wiki is fully searchable. Simply enter "ATF search topic" in your favorite search engine to find what you're looking for.

The PDF documents have a search index that allows you to search all of them at once. The search hits list all documents found and each instance of the search string, allowing you to go immediately to the page with the found text highlighted.

First, download the search index and unzip it into the folder with the PDF documents. To start searching, select Edit > Advanced Search in Reader or Acrobat. For more information, see Advanced Searching PDF Documents.