Mac Apps

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:59 pm

Are mac apps written for the unix base or for the cocoa front-end? Because if I could get some mac apps cooking on my linux install, that'd be fantastic.

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:15 pm

Let's see.
HMT:mac, OBJConverter and CMP were written in realbasic and only compiled to mac. Most likely carbon based.

HHK was written with cocoa IIRC.

C#MT is an OBJ-C program that uses mono so you might have some luck there. It's source is available.

Sparkedit/Swordedit are OBJ-C with cocoa (fairly certain).

Eschaton is realbasic and if you want I can compile a linux version for you. From the information I can get I know it compiles for GTK+ 2.x on x86 machines. Any other programs I wrote, the sources disappeared with my HD crash so they're in the same boat as HMT:mac and the others.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:43 pm

Source is preferable. Ubuntu uses .debs, arch uses .tar.gzs, and so on.

Except that I already have eschaton for windows. :P

Thanks, but don't bother.

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:10 pm

Well Eschaton is closed source for now but if you want native support it's no problem to compile for linux. Root posted a collection of sources here.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:08 pm

Ok, thanks.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:50 am

Halo 1:
HMT .5 and .75: RealBasic
OBJConverter: RealBasic
HHK .1, 1, 2: Objective-C
C#MT: C#
Eschaton: RealBasic
Sparkedit: Objective-C, Obj-C++ and C++
Swordedit: Objective-C, C++

Halo 2:
Hydrogen: C
Oxygen: C

Both the halo 2 apps could run under linux because they are command line based. all the apps written in RB can be compiled via RB to run under all OSes, C#MT could possibly be run even though it is quite doubtful at this point since what it uses is not longer referenced the same way in OS X so would not translate to Linux period.

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:29 am

You Mac people and your silly languages <33

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:37 am

OBJ-C(++) is the only thing silly up there that I see. Realbasic is basically the same as visual basic and the IDE is similar to visual studio. What's really silly is Java. Wasn't Halo mutator written in Java?

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:01 pm

Alt, I have no idea what you just said, but hey, it all sounds cool to me. This is why you build apps and I use them and not vice versa.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:12 pm

What's the difference between OBJ-C(++) and C++?

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:06 pm

OBJ-C uses small talk message with C style syntax. It's a strict superset of C that implements OO while C++ is similar but has some incompatibilities.

C++ code would look something like:

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obj.method(parameter);

whereas OBJ-C would look like:

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[obj method:parameter];

Different implementations to achieve the same goal. OBJ-C++ is an extension of OBJ-C that adds some compatibility for C++ code.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:33 pm

I am always checking the forums, if you got some programming specific questions, I can give you some answers quickly.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:20 pm

I'm actually taking a C++ course as a partnership program with the nearby community college, but it goes so slow. We started in September, and we're just starting if statements.

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:03 pm

Wow. I'd be surprised if you ever get to pointers at that rate.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:32 pm

Lol, what's a pointer?

Seriously though, besides basic math operations in C++, the only programming knowledge I have is in QBASIC, which went extinct 20 years ago.

Although I do pride myself in the program I made that, using the point command and QBASIC's 16 colors, behaved somewhat like a rudimentary paint program with over 160 unique colors.

MoDFox · Post by **MoDFox** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:39 pm

WaeV wrote:QBASIC

Haha, speaking of QBASIC.
I took a course back in grade 10 and the teacher loaded this program that just kept putting coloured words on the screen and played that bomb dropping whistle.
It originally was to fool students but it backfired and became a weapon against him and subs.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:00 am

Lol, I took it freshman year. We had one "sound day" which was the only day were were allowed to use the sound commands, so we could get it out of our systems.

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:59 am

I remember way back in High School programming I learning about the bell command. Had a nice infinite loop buried in one program that called that.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:24 pm

A few months ago I was bored, so I made a program that picks 50 random sets of x,y,z coordinates for "stars" of the same mass, then calculates and enacts the effects of gravity. It looks pretty realistic.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:44 pm

I found my star simulator!

http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?p=829284