glossary:glossary [YAKE Documentation Wiki]

Glossary specifically tailored to YAKE, YAPP, and all related areas.

Feel free to add an entry that you want to know then someone might be nice and fill it out for you (eg Thing: ?)

…and remember, google is your friend

YAKE - The underlying library providing the API wrapping and the basis for YAPP
YAPP - The library on top of YAKE which provides super-high-level functionality, such as one-line scene loading, entity handling, AI state machines, etc.

“caps”: short for capabilities. Use to query for the availability of certain features (like pixel shader support etc).
Loki: a small library of useful generic components (smart ptr, factories, functors, etc) http://sourceforge.net/projects/loki-lib
Shared pointer: Look at the boost's smart pointers library for a good explanation of smart ( including shared ) pointers concepts.
Signals: a special kind of event handling mechanism.
TTL (Tiny Template Library): a collection of generic components similar to the ones of boost (includes variants, tuples, signals and more). http://tinytl.sourceforge.net
“visitor”: It's a certain design pattern.

1. usually a gui component. It is shell-like and allows commands input and execution.

2. In this case direct lua commands.
3. that what mj is screaming about all the time :)

mj finally contributed this as a generic component with sample and Lua backend to Yake! Well done, mj!