search

waneck / croxit

WebView for mobile platforms on steroids
137 stars 11 forks source link

Desktop client #2

Open fullofcaffeine opened 9 years ago

fullofcaffeine commented 9 years ago

Hey Cauê!

I started a prototype for an application I'm working with with Croxit and everything's going well so far. I would like to develop a desktop version (mainly OSX for now, but cross-platform would be great afterwards). What's the status of the desktop client?

By the way, the guy from Quaxe made an experiment with embedding Webkit and it was quite successful I think. If you don't have time right now, could you update me on what is the best way to go now and perhaps share the code you already have? I could take it from there, hopefully.

Cheers man!

Marcelo

waneck commented 9 years ago

Sorry for taking some time to answer you! I'm working on it, and I'm working so it can be ready to test until January. But I can't really hand you out a date very easily.

As for the best way to deal with that, after examining the options it seems to me that using CEF3 ( https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/ ) is the best way to go. I started coding all the native code bindings by hand - since croxit 2 will expose window creation for example - but that was a massive amount of boilerplate code and there are some annoying issues - like for example the fact that both Haxe and the native parts need to store a backward reference from haxe to native handle, and native handle to haxe. Anyway, I'm dealing with all that in an exciting way (I think), but I plan to show it off once it's ready :)

If you're interested, drop me a message and let's talk about what's there to do. And anyway I'll let you know once it's ready to be tested!

fullofcaffeine commented 9 years ago

On Dec 5, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Cauê Waneck notifications@github.com wrote:

Sorry for taking some time to answer you! I'm working on it, and I'm working so it can be ready to test until January. But I can't really hand you out a date very easily.

No problem! As for the best way to deal with that, after examining the options it seems to me that using CEF3 ( https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/ https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/ ) is the best way to go. I started coding all the native code bindings by hand - since croxit 2 will expose window creation for example - but that was a massive amount of boilerplate code and there are some annoying issues - like for example the fact that both Haxe and the native parts need to store a backward reference from haxe to native handle, and native handle to haxe. Anyway, I'm dealing with all that in an exciting way (I think), but I plan to show it off once it's ready :)

I'm quite curious! Does it leverage macros somehow? If you're interested, drop me a message and let's talk about what's there to do. And anyway I'll let you know once it's ready to be tested!

I’m definitely interested. I have a medium-sized project coming and it consists of a web app and a mobile app. I already started prototyping with Haxe and Croxit, and I like what I see so far, but I’d definitely be interested to help you in any way I can. Let me know if you have a shared list tracking the progress/milestones somewhere. —

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/waneck/croxit/issues/2#issuecomment-65851560.