Hello, a combination of CHICKEN and Godot sounds very interesting! I've been meaning to experiment more with that engine for a while, and with Godot 4.0 just out the door the time is probably perfect to try out the new extension APIs.
I'm not completely sure how the CHICKEN/Godot hybrid should look like and suspect that embedding Godot in a CHICKEN egg would at least be cumbersome. Maybe some kind of tooling to streamline the task of rolling CHICKEN code into a single loadable module for Godot to use would be most promising 🤔 I think I've just found a project for the upcoming CHICKEN summer workshop 😁 Ciao, Thomas C. Am Mi., 22. März 2023 um 15:28 Uhr schrieb Matt Welland < mattrwell...@gmail.com>: > I've been using IUP with Chicken for years. I really enjoy using it > (thanks Thomas!). But, here we are, over 10 years later and IUP is still > not available as an official Debian package and it is a burden to deploy. > It is also still not supported on Mac. > > So, I'm scouting around (again) for alternatives and I'm starting to lean > towards using Godot for my next project. Godot + Chicken scheme that is. > I'm hoping that I can deploy to mac, Linux and Windows and maybe even > android without too much pain. > > Here is an article that makes the case for using Godot for graphical user > interfaces: > > > https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-advance-gui-applications-b1cfb941df3b > > I can achieve what I need with any one of three approaches: > > 1. Godot <==> chicken executable, where the connection could be tcp, http > or similar. > > 2. Godot <==> chicken .so file > > 3. Chicken <==> godot egg > > I don't have time or expertise to do an egg without help. Before I start > working using option 1 or 2 I wanted to ask the chicken community if there > was interest in collaborating on creating a godot egg. > > Thanks! > > NOTE: If hypergiant had a widget library with a decent text widget (line > wrapping, copy/paste to the OS etc.) I'd have considered it. Raylib was > also interesting and it's text support might have been adequate but the egg > was never published and seems abandoned. > > > -- > Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. > It is hard to keep things simple. - Richard Branson. >
