Is monkey able to do budgeting apps
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| Hi Is it possible to do normal desktop apps like shopping lists and budgeting programmes/apps reason I ask I am new to Monkey just downloaded the free version coming from blitzmax. A friend asked if it would be possible to combine a shopping app with a budgeting app on android so she has it on her phone and has a more detailed version on the pc with a much more thorough breakdown of income and expenditure, is this possible with Monkey or is it just a game building language? MichaelUK |
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| of course it can! For that purpose, it is probably more limited to your skills. |
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| An app is just a game that isn't any fun ;-) |
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| ^ I wholeheartedly agree to that. :) |
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| I advise you use an integer type to store all values in units of cents. |
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| Okay thanks for the replies guys, going to look at building the app my friend is wanting i feel this will be a good way to get to grips with monkey :) |
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| The primary issue for apps at the moment is database access(or lack thereof) and GUI. |
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| Hmmm maybe i need to think again about this i was hoping there would be something in place for GUI and database functions by this time since monkey as been around awhile now. |
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| non-native gui: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=5243&page=1 sqllite wrapper for desktop: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=4710 |
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| Is that GUI available for download somewhere? I have been following it for a long time but i didn't think it was released. |
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| you're right! try: challenger: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=2767&page=first or jungle: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=3185&page=first |
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| Adam, does that SQLite wrapper still work? I couldn't get it to work the few times I tried, and nobody replied on the thread. |
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| AdamRedwoods wrote: you're right! try: challenger: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=2767&page=first or jungle: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=3185&page=first Very slooooow. Why do all do copy of desktop interface? Where is mobile like elements? They are easy to implementation and more actual on any platform. |
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| also forgot about this GUI: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=6132 |
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| Any ideas on the SQLite module you linked to Adam? |
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| Any ideas on the SQLite module you linked to Adam? http://monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=4710#79790 |
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| It's certainly possibly, but Monkey is mainly designed for realtime games and may not be the best choice for this sort of thing. That said, I have no idea what the alternatives are given your requirements, ie: running on pc+phone. |
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| marksibly wrote: running on pc+phone. Phonegap. Desktop version of App is run as Chrome/FireFox application. |
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| Phonegap Ewwwwwwwwwww, Phonegap is bad!!! |
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| I was thinking about this last night. Maybe a budgeting app is not the ideal scenario for Monkey, but it would certainly be technically possible - and I see no reason at all why Monkey could not do apps in general. For example, it would be almost an ideal language for a calculator app in my opinion. Two things that occurred to me: 1. A more elaborate version on PC is old style thinking. There's no reason why all versions shouldn't have identical capability given the power of modern mobile devices. 2. A non-standard GUI could be an issue with some kind of apps. But you could make a virtue of it: "[APP] is exactly the same on all your devices!". This is why I think it would be perfect for a calculator, say - the interface is non-standard anyway, and you would want it to be identical everywhere. So, I'm not sure I would entirely dismiss skid's comment on another thread - some kinds of budgeting apps might not be the best fit for Monkey, at least with the current lack of maturity in GUIs etc. But apps in general: why not? Of course many apps will leverage the capabilities of specific devices and in this case you would likely need some native code. But with several mobile platforms out there, the cross platform capabilities of Monkey are not to be lightly dismissed. Anyway, those are my thoughts on the matter. |
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| Thanks for all the replies on this I am certainly going to give it a try and see how far I get if anything it will be a good learning experience for me I think. |
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| Just an idea. Attach webview control (UIWebView is IOS, WebView in Android) and set a control-data pipeline beetween HTML/JS code for interface and native-from-monkey code for logic. It's like PhoneGap. |
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| It's like PhoneGap. And it'll be super slow and unusable... |
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| Just an idea. Attach webview control (UIWebView is IOS, WebView in Android) a very good idea. someone did try this a while back (doubtful the code will work now): https://github.com/tluyben/Monkey-WebView |
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| But the WebViews JS engines are a lot slower than the native browsers JS engines... so if a MonkeyX "game" runs slowly on the native browser it will run even worse within a webview... |
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| therevills wrote: But the WebViews JS engines are a lot slower than the native browsers JS engines Why? therevills wrote: it will run even worse within a webview... No reason to run a Monkey game in the webview in a Monkey game. WebView is used for common UI interaction only. AdamRedwoods wrote: a very good idea. someone did try this a while back (doubtful the code will work now): https://github.com/tluyben/Monkey-WebView Thanks. Download it to test. |
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| Why? Ask Apple and Google :) No reason to run a Monkey game in the webview in a Monkey game. WebView is used for common UI interaction only. Ah, maybe I was getting confused about what you wanted to do... |
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