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#1

Hi;

I’m very much enjoying Corona and Lua, and was wondering if you’ve considered adding the ability to generate Mac OSX apps. Normally I build small utility apps in AppleScript (with and without AppleScript Studio) and occasionally Pascal, but I would love to be able to use Lua and Corona to build them instead

I have a need for a system that will generate small, fast, functional apps without a lot of the programming overhead of XCode, I’m sure there’s a few other Lua users who’d like the same.

Is it anywhere on the roadmap?

Thanks,
Walt Sterdan [import]uid: 4329 topic_id: 449 reply_id: 300449[/import]

#2

Well,

I am currently developing a development environment for Windows/Linux/MacOSX which allows you to script desktop applications (and, later, also full RIAs) in Lua. It is, however, completely different from Corona - it was inspired by HyperCard, although I always wanted “real” data structures/objects and a “real” scripting language. My basic requirements were

  • visual development environment
  • interactive “live” programming (no annoying edit-compile-run cycles)
  • modern scripting languages which allow for prototype-based differential inheritance

Depending on my iPhone/iPad acitivities, a first version should come out in late Feb/early March, with Lua as the initial scripting language - an own BASIC dialect and “simplified JavaScript” are already in the pipeline, a (heavily modified) xTalk version is planned (but the interpreter is not yet ready)

The product will be a commercial one with a foreseen price of 49.- EUR (which might be s.th. like 79.- US-$)

Kind regards,

Andreas Rozek [import]uid: 4331 topic_id: 449 reply_id: 864[/import]

#3

Hi Andreas;

It sounds very interesting, please keep us posted.

I do need the ability to compile standalone applications, though, and I’d love to have a simplified development system (like Corona) that would do the job. I could bite the bullet and tackle Obj-C, but Corona is so clean and light… :wink:

– Walt [import]uid: 4329 topic_id: 449 reply_id: 866[/import]