Using an external library (imgui)
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| I stumbled across this neat little library today https://github.com/ocornut/imgui and was wondering if it at all is possible to use it with Monkey. I think it depends on the target I think? Since this library is written in C++ I think you're bound to the Desktop and C++ target? |
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| you'd need to create a wrapper class and a way to make it work with mojo. Once you do that you can use it on any platforms it supports -- Android (NDK), ios, desktop, provided the original lib can also work here and you follow the same directions. |
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| Is there any tool that can aid to create C++ wrappers or must be created by hand by experienced C++ developers? Thx |
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| AFAIK Android NDK support has not been implemented on Android, it was cancelled when BRL stopped adding major features. |
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| You can link to NDK yourself from java code. Having an NDK-specific target isn't part of an inherent Monkey limitation. https://thenewcircle.com/s/post/49/using_ndk_to_call_c_code_from_android_apps |
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| Sorry that was a badly worded reply. I should have said that Mark was working on a Monkey NDK based target(which I thought you were referring to) which would have generated NDK linkable Android C++ code instead of the current Java code. Using C++ would have been the same as most of the other platforms, a simple Import. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the only way to get C++ into Monkey for Android is to create and link a statically linkable library and use the NDK to interface with it and Java. I genuinely would love to be proved wrong here as this prosess it a bit of a PITA. |
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