The Monkey extensions and features
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| Hi I finally jump in the monkey boat too :) Yay! Monkey's looking pretty good ATM. I'd like to learn how to port existing C/C++ libraries to it. It may sound a bit early to begin with but I can't do without important modules such as LibXML and the like. Does anybody ever write something about porting C/C++ libraries? Since Monkey is quite new I think it would be a good idea to give tips about this important feature. Is this easier than porting library to BlitzMax? Since I don't know the others platforms yet, I'm only focused on GLFW for PC, MAC & Linux. Also, Is there any plan to officially support Reflection ? I often write tools for my games and reflection help a lot when you need to change object on the fly with editor. Does think like Render To Texture, DrawTexturedPolygon, FBO cannot be included in Mojo this time? I think it's something that can be done on every platform, but even if it was only supported in GLFW it would be an incredible features to play with. I saw a lot of people asking for this and seeing how dizzy a DrawTexturedPolygon function grow in the BlitzMax archive I would prefer to have this out of the box with Monkey. Thanks for any answers ;) |
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| I have been attempting to port over C/C++ libs (miniB3D) and it's a bit different and more difficult than BlitzMax. My reasoning is that since things are compiled in it's own language, you shouldn't really need a 'glue' file. But since monkey is a GC language, you need something to keep an eye on the imported library. It's during the trans-coding that Monkey will start to wrap strange GC functions around your non-GC code. I was working a little with Mark on this, but I haven't had the time to investigate fully. Additionally, we need a way for monkey to include pre-compiled static libs during compile time. Here's some notes on my OSX attempts. On Win7 I've been using MINGW, which isn't officially supported by Monkey. http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=1446 ...as a side note, you can add "functions" easily enough. SO if you want to add a render-to-texture function you may be able to write it in it's native code for each platform, and return a monkey-ed image object. |
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| More difficult than BlitzMax, hip... Additionally, we need a way for monkey to include pre-compiled static libs during compile time. That would be a nice feature indeed! ...as a side note, you can add "functions" easily enough. SO if you want to add a render-to-texture function you may be able to write it in it's native code for each platform, and return a monkey-ed image object. Like in BlitzMax I suppose. But I think it's basic enough to be officially supported. Native code is still a bit hard for me. You give me a good motivation to search for specific C/C++ code :) |
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