[MacRuby-devel] Ruby/SDL bindings with MacRuby (Cocoa?)

[Timothy McDowell]

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On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Timothy McDowell <tmcdowell at gmail.com>wrote:

> Awesome, thanks. I'll take a look at those.
> Hrm, how do I download from you're iDisk?
>
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> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:37 AM, John Shea <johnmacshea at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Timothy,
>>
>> I have converted Tim Burks RubyRocks - a simple Asteroids game to MacRuby
>> - with NSViews and another version to use OpenGL.
>> The OpenGL version has some ObjC code to get access to pixels.
>>
>> They are at johmacshea.org - which bounces to my idisk while I am on
>> holidays - in the MacRuby/Game Related.
>>
>> In the Hillegas directory on the same site there is a MacRuby example that
>> uses CoreAnimation - called Polynomials - I don't think its however
>> appropriate to write action games in - or at least not initially as easy as
>> other possibilities - though i would be happy to see someone prove me wrong
>> - since in some ways it would be easier than OpenGL .
>>
>> Let me know if you have any issues getting them running.
>> Cheers
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>>
>>  Timothy,
>>>
>>> I don't think that the Ruby/SDL bindings can be used today inside
>>> MacRuby. The extensions mechanism still suffers from problems.
>>>
>>> While I'm not a Quartz expert I am pretty sure you can replace Ruby/SDL
>>> by pure Mac OS X APIs, with as Quartz but also CoreImage, CoreAudio,
>>> CoreAnimation, OpenGL (which can be called from MacRuby), etc. Now it
>>> depends if you want to write cross-platform code.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Laurent
>>>
>>> On Feb 14, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Timothy McDowell wrote:
>>>
>>>  Is it possible for me to use the Ruby/SDL bindings with MacRuby/Cocoa?
>>>> Also, can Quartz handle movement of sprites (gifs, pngs, jpgs?) and the
>>>> like? Would Quartz be just fine for game development?
>>>>
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