Use Monkey for a utility with a simple GUI?
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| This may be off topic, primarily as most discussion is about game dev, but I wondered what advice you would give to me when trying to make an OSX utility in monkey? The utility needs the following features: - Access to sockets - Ability to register and detect OSX wide hotkey presses - Have a simple GUI And no it's not a virus... Could it be done in Monkey? Or is this a bad idea and should I be using Xojo (aka Real Basic) or PureBasic or CrazyBananaBasic, etc |
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| You'd have to implement those last two features yourself in Monkey, so I'd personally use PureBasic or BlitzMax, but neither has built-in functions to detect global keypresses. I know how to detect global hotkeys in Windows for these two, but that's for specific keys that you register to receive notification on -- not sure how you'd detect *any* old keypress. With either of PB or 'Max, you'd still have to find out the equivalent function call/s for OS X to detect hotkeys/arbitrary keypresses (if that's even possible), but I basically know nothing about calling OS functions on Macs... |
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| Thanks for the help! I want to set 4 hot keys on load and detect when they're pressed (even when the program is not active) so exactly as you describe. I thought monkey had socket methods? Using blitzmax sounds better than purebasic as I know the developer's track record and community. No love for real basic / xojo? What's the debugger like in BM? How about the GUI builder? |
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| BlitzMax's debugger is good. No GUI builder unless you use something like: http://jsp.logiczone.de/ Monkey does have sockets. |
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| What's wrong with purebasic? You obviously haven't been around the pb forum recently. The latest release is very stable. Great bit of kit. |
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| I found working example for global keyboard hook for MacOSX on PB's forum. |
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