[NTLK] NewtonTalk Digest, Vol 86, Issue 8

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On 2/12/2021 5:40 PM, Mark Kuberski wrote:
> On your point of the iOS Development.  Is someone else keeping up that development?  If no one is doing it, I could learn it.  What language is it?  

Einstein is written in C++. The Emulator has no platform specific code. 
Everything that needs to be ported is in separate files (drivers). If a 
feature can't be ported, Einstein will use a default driver that does 
nothing (for example sound on E-Ink devices).

You would need to refresh the iOS App frmaework (everything memeory and 
file management, timers, threads, locks) and the user interface (screen, 
settings, etc.)

> Xcode? Swift?  Would the code you are using work with the iOS development?  For example, if I took your code, could I tweak it for iOS development?  

Yes.

> I would have thought the development for Mac OS would be the same or similar to iOS, in that you would use the Xcode environment.

Pauls code uses native environments for each platform (Cocoa on Mac, X11 
on Linux) which is cool, but the "unloved" platform alwys gets fixed 
last (X11 for example only runs from the command line and has no 
keyboard support). My branch (matt2020) uses FLTK for all this. FLTK is 
like a tiny version of Qt and manages the entire User Interface in a 
transparent way, so I don't have to.

FLTK does not run on iOS though. The iOS code is still in my branch, but 
I have not tried to compile it in ages.

The Android port is a hybrid in this respect. FLTK does not support 
Android, but all the knowledge I gather from porting EInstein to Android 
goes right into FLTK. Ideally, in a year, FLTK will run on Android (I am 
half way there!), which in turn will make the matt2020 brnach run on 
Android including settings dialog, Monitor, and even Toolkit.

If you could port FLTK to iOS, well that would be a thing... ;-)

> 
> So having said all that, I’m interested in taking an attempt at making PCMICA cards available in iOS (iPad and iPhone), but I will NEED you help! The beers just keep pilling up ;)
> 
> Let me know where I should start… maybe even starting with some tutorials to familiarize myself around Xcode.
> 
> Thanks
> Mark
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>> My next question is, will you port this PCMCIA functionality to all Einsteins, ie) over to the iOS Einstein?
> 
> It will work on MacOS, Windows, and Linux for sure (give it a week or
> two). It will eventually work on Android (that will be probably 3 months
> away). I can't give you an ETA for iOS. I am not maintaining that
> version. Technically, it's of course possible.
> 
>> Thanks so much for all that you do in all things Einstein!! I wish we could give you a tip somehow, a coffee, beer, etc… I think I’m up to owing you a case of beer by now!
> 
> Sound great. Let's a have a beer at the next physical User Meeting ;-)
> 
>    - Matthias
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