iPhone using Max?

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Sin of Nature(Posted 2012) [#1]
Hi,

Been away from the Blitz scene for a while so bit behind the times/progress of Blitz. May be an odd question, but using the Mac version (as it uses xCode), is it possible to write programs that would work on the iPhone? I'm guessing missing touch and guestures would be the obvious flaw.

sin


jsp(Posted 2012) [#2]
but using the Mac version (as it uses xCode), is it possible to write programs that would work on the iPhone?

No, but Monkey is created for that reason:
http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/topics.php?forum=201
http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/


ima747(Posted 2012) [#3]
Check out Monkey as referenced by jsp

There's lots of reasons Max can't make iOS apps, no knowledge of the input mechanisms is actually among the easier problems to overcome. Processor architecture (max doesn't just translate to C and then compile that with XCode) being a bigger hurdle, on top of the OS target dependencies... Monkey was created basically to address these types of low level concerns. Max doesn't see a ton of development these days so there's basically no chance further platforms will be developed for it, especially when monkey has them and similar syntax already.