Glad you're thinking my way :) Flash desktop applications are becoming very attractive in the IT market because they are very quick to produce, however, building desktop Flash apps with functionality only available in desktop applications programming environments, all in one language would be incredibly attractive. Add remoting (and media server capabilities should red5 ever be complete) will add astronomical possibilities. Course, most of that is just a pipe dream and wishful thinking :) But certainly some of that is possible, and in the foreseeable future.
Lee -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Cannasse Sent: 14 March 2006 09:44 To: Neko intermediate language mailing list Subject: Re: [Neko] Streams > Wow, is it really that simple for creating an exe? Yes. Basicaly what the "nekotools boot" is doing is concat the .n bytecode to the "neko" executable (containing the VM boot) and modify some special bytes in it so it will boot by reading itself instead of waiting for commandline parameter. Although it's not supported right now, it would be possible this way to create Win32 and OSX executables on Linux, and vice-versa. > This kinda stirs up > some thoughts. I tend to use the Sockets and HTTP options on Python a > lot as it's a great way to create network applications, but of course, > Python comes with the overhead of having to have Python installed on > each machine to be of much use. Neko, on the other hand, would not > require much client side maintenance. Are there any plans for GUI > support in Neko? I'm sure a conversion of PyGTK or somesuch might be > quite simple to convert, seeing as it's open source. There is no such plans on my side. You're welcome the read the C FFI and hack it by yourself ;) http://nekovm.org/doc/ffi > Alternatively, if a simple form can be created with Neko, it might be > easier to attach the Flash.ocx as a presentation layer. This then opens > up possibilities with communication layers, either as a C mod or a Neko > framework. That's another story :) But yes behing able to tie together haXe/Flash and haXe/Neko for desktops applications seems like a good idea. Nicolas -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org) -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org)
