TNoodle on IOS

[Jeremy Fleischman]

(following Stefan's example and starting up a separate thread for a new idea)

Dan,

What would it take to get tnoodle scrambles running on IOS? Would it be possible to get the existing javascript generation and scrambling code to run in a native app?

-Jeremy

[Dan Cohen]

Well I've thought about trying to run a js scrambler within a WebKit view and get data to and from the native app, but I haven't actually gotten to too much testing.  The other option is trying to get the java version translated into Obj-C/++ somehow, but I'm not aware of any utility that can accomplish that.  

I should have probably mentioned this in the introduction thread, but I haven't really had much time to code recently at all.  I do plan on attempting to take a stab at a rewrite of my iOS timer coming up as I've gotten some time on my hands, so I can probably do some testing to see what works.

-Dan

[Lucas Garron]

Why are we reinventing the wheel?

https://bitbucket.org/IngeneroiOS/cubetimer-scramblers/

»Lucas Garron

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[Jeremy Fleischman]

Being able to reuse the JavaScript code would be really nice. I am sure there's something out there we could get working that would port java to c++ or objective c, but I bet it would be a whole bunch of work to get the drawing code ported too. Let me know if you give the WebKit view a shot, and if you need any help generating the JavaScript version of tnoodle.

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[Jeremy Fleischman]

I didn't know about this project. Do they have nice, high quality scramblers for all puzzles? Even if they do, I still like the idea of people only having to write a tnoodle scrambler, and then be able to use it anywhere.

[Lucas Garron]

The WebKit view might still be running a restricted version of Nitro (or whatever engine they use on iOS web views now).

I think the "right" way to do portability these days is C/C++, emscriptened to WebKit for portability where rewriting in Javascript is impractical.

»Lucas Garron

[Jeremy Fleischman]

On Sep 29, 2013 8:22 PM, "Lucas Garron" <crease...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The WebKit view might still be running a restricted version of Nitro (or whatever engine they use on iOS web views now).

Oh bummer. I guess we will see what Dan discovers.

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> I think the "right" way to do portability these days is C/C++, emscriptened to WebKit for portability where rewriting in Javascript is impractical.

I know you've had good luck with emscript, but I don't see how it could fit into the tnoodle code base, as its written in Java, not C. Did you have an idea there? also, how would the drawing code fit into the picture?

[Lucas Garron]

That was not a suggestion for practice. Just an observation about where things are going.

»Lucas Garron

[Stefan Pochmann]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Jeremy Fleischman <jeremyfl...@gmail.com> wrote:

I know you've had good luck with emscript

It's "emscripten" (just saying so others don't have to repeat my futile googling for "emscript" :-)