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Re: Gforth on Android

From Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Gforth on Android
Date 2014-05-14 17:12 -0700
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Bernd Paysan wrote:
> Steve Graham wrote:
>> Can Gforth on the Android be used to make turnkey apps?
>
> Yes, sort-of.  At the moment, we can't compile C bindings into an image, so
> you have to load the Android-specific stuff from source (this is on my to-do
> list).  And the cross compilation build procedure which produces the apk
> still contains too much magic for the average developer ;-).
>
>> Can it interface with the Android GUI?
>
> I have a JNI interface, but using that to interface the Android GUI wouldn't
> be a very pleasent job.  The Android GUI is tossing Java stuff all over the
> place, and you really don't want to program this in another language.  It's
> not designed for language neutral bindings, not even for JNI interfacing, as
> you need to subclass Java classes to get what you want.  Maybe some easy
> things work well from Forth via JNI (plus XML for the GUI description), but
> in general, this is all too much in Java land.
>
> I'm working on MINOS2, which will be a Forth GUI library similar to MINOS,
> but with modern look and feel (animation, shaded stuff and such).
>

Thanks.  Are there any examples of using it to code simple projects?


Steve

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Gforth on Android Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-14 12:52 -0700
  Re: Gforth on Android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-05-15 01:41 +0200
    Re: Gforth on Android Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-14 17:12 -0700
    Re: Gforth on Android Marvin <marvin_littlewood_426716@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-12 02:08 -0700
  Re: Gforth on Android BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2014-06-10 21:34 -0700
    Re: Gforth on Android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-06-11 16:19 +0200
      Re: Gforth on Android bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-06-13 23:19 -0700
        Re: Gforth on Android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-06-14 14:57 +0200
          Re: Gforth on Android BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2014-06-15 17:49 -0700

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