Native Mac OS X example with Gnoga

Native Mac OS X example with Gnoga

[David Botton]

It's quick and dirty, but I wanted to prove a point, Gnoga can be used for native development.

Using Gnoga and MacGap I created a native Mac OS X app of the Snake example from http://www.gnoga.com

It is downloadable from there if any one wants, when I have more time I'll bind the MacGap API so can do menus, notifications, and all sorts of native Mac stuff. Write some tools to automate things, etc. I also will plan on a special way to build in the future that instead of WebSockets communicates directly to WebKit for native apps.

The process I used was simple:

git clone https://github.com/MacGapProject/MacGap2.git

cd MacGap2/public

I modified the existing index.html with:

<script>
var p = MacGap.resourcePath + "/public/bin/snake";
MacGap.launch (p);
window.open("http://127.0.0.1:8080","_self")
</script>

I then created in public the /bin dir and /html dir, copied snake in to bin and boot.html in to /html/

I then openned MG.xcodeproj

Compiled and done :)

I did modify the snake example so it shutdown the webserver and then closed the OS X as well on game over:

         if Game_Over then
            delay 2.0;
            Gnoga.Server.Connection.Execute_Script
              (ID     => Main_Window.Connection_ID,
               Script => "MacGap.terminate();");
            Gnoga.Application.Multi_Connect.End_Application;
            exit;
         end if;