Hanappe

Speaking of Lua based Game Engines, I wish MOAI had managed to survive the onslaught of App-store policies designed to kill it. It was a really fun way to build apps. I wonder if anyone has ported Hanappe, which is a GUI framework on top of MOAI, to LOVE yet ... https://github.com/makotok/Hanappe Maybe its time to revive MOAI and bring some heat to these frameworks ..

>I would love to see a Renaissance of native cross platform apps. Along similar lines, I have been using the MOAI environment, with the Hanappe GUI framework, to deliver apps across every platform you can port MOAI too, sort of .. fulfilling .. the once-jaunted "write once, run anywhere" dream, while also giving me a usable UI environment for the modern world.. ship bytecode/Lua files, run the same code everywhere (the MOAI client lives). Seriously, worth an hour or so of lab-bench time, if one is considering the prospect of having an app/run-time equilibrium, albeit with a modicum of effort: http://github.com/moai/ http://github.com/makotok/Hanappe http://github.com/makotok/Flower (Flower is another branch, similar concept: build your entire UI as a mini-lib, bring it with you everywhere you need it...)

Middle-class is awesome, thanks for sharing that .. I'll put it on my lab bench for hacking over the next few days. Continuing the list of 'handy little Lua libraries that others in this thread might be interested in', I'll add that I think that a lot of newcomers to Lua from languages like Ruby and Python might enjoy having lua-enumerable around as well, which provides a set of enumerable ops that fit in quite well with Lua's tables .. check it out: https://github.com/mikelovesrobots/lua-enumerable Hanappes' got a few nice Lua classes in its lang folder too: https://github.com/makotok/Hanappe/tree/master/projects/hana... Useful for newcomers to Lua and pro's alike, imho ..

>>The "Android without cumbersome Java and NDK" (from another comment) is - arguably - not an Android at all. It is a Linux kernel and the glibc, with lots of the hardware not accessible. MOAI suits the bill in this regard - all the hardware is available, and in some ways the MOAI host is more of a host OS than anything else .. giving true freedom, but of course more responsibility: the GUI frameworks available are not as polished (yet) as they are in the Android sphere but for some this may well be a positive argument for involvement in a non-vendor approach in the first place .. MOAI: http://getmoai.com/ Hanappe GUI for MOAI: http://github.com/makotok/Hanappe