Greetings Gideros-ians

ArtLeeApps · June 2013

Hi all,

Ive been in IT for about 25 years. Ranging from Programmer, Analyst, Project/Team Leader, Business Analyst, Currently working as an Analyst Developer as i just like to play too much. Ive worked in these languages: Cobol,VBA,Perl,C,Unix,Progress,Ingres, Java, Android SDK.

Ive wanted to build games for phones back when Java SE was the rage. so i tinkered in that with not much progress.

Im an Androidian now. Recently, i started learning Native Android, watched as many YouTube videos i could find.
Built a few tiny apps, and even published them in Google Play to get the feel of how to do it. Sold 4 x 0.99c Apps (go me!), and 300 of the free app.

My Application Manager at work is a true Apple fan with all the latest bits. So he is learning IOS/XCode. its a real Spy vs Spy situation... He is developing an app for work relating to our current systems, and im always saying where's the Android version....

Thinking for My Games and potentially for work apps. I looked around for a multi-platform solution, found a few, but liked the look and price of Gideros.

I have a work in progress little game im building to learn Gideros now, for Android initially as im familiar with the SDK/Publishing etc.

I like how easy the code plugs together compared to the Native Android, and the potential to publish on IOS/Android.

Arty = giderosDude:new()

hgvyas123 · June 2013

Welcom Dude

by the way your code is just half it should be like

Arty = giderosDude:new()
GiderosBuddy:addDude(Arty)

fxone · June 2013

... and im always saying where's the Android version....

Welcome, I like your attitude

There is a lot of improvements for Android since the time, when I started my journey with Gideros little over year ago.. So far, so good for Android

ar2rsawseen · June 2013

not to crash the party or anything, but constructor new is usually used through dot, as
giderosDude.new() and usual practice is to name GiderosClasses using first letter of the word caps, including first word, instances are usually called small letter first, but maybe its just my practice

Oh and @ArtLeeApps as you'll see, we love to get off-topic

And welcome

hgvyas123 · June 2013

arghhh let me correct the code

Arty = giderosDude.new()
giderosBuddy:addDude(Arty)

OZApps · June 2013

@hgvyas... you will have an error as you did not provide the assumptions that there is a global object called giderosBuddy and a giderosDude class that offers the giderosDude object.

So,

local giderosBuddies = {}
 
function addBuddy(theBuddy)
 -- Cannot add blank buddies
 if theBuddy == nil then return
 
 -- save buddy as a table
 if type(theBuddy) ~= "table" and type(theBuddy) ~= "function" then
  theBuddy = {name = theBuddy}
 end
 
 table.insert(giderosBuddies, theBuddy)
end
 
function printBuddies()
 for i,j in pairs(giderosBuddies) do
  print("Buddy : ", j.name or "") -- just in case someone added this as a table
 end
end
 
addBuddy{name="Atilim", handle="<a href="http://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/atilim%26quot" rel="nofollow">@atilim&quot</a>;}
addBuddy{name="Arthur", handle="<a href="http://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/ar2rsawseen%26quot" rel="nofollow">@ar2rsawseen&quot</a>;}
addBuddy{name="Jayant", handle="<a href="http://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/ozapps%26quot" rel="nofollow">@ozapps&quot</a>;}
 
-- Add more as you want to
-- Save this to file and you have a contacts database
-- Off topic tutorial for using tables and creating a contacts database (basic)

cheers,

ArtLeeApps · June 2013

@hgvyas123 ah thank you, and I'm even on show now

@fxone, I've never been an Apple fan, it started back on the Macintosh when it was like the OS wasn't accessible. Viva la DOS lol

@ar2rsawseen so using your standards, would that make the final code. With the capital "G".
It's always confusing when each language has their own differences ...
Arty = GiderosDude.new()
giderosBuddy:addDude(Arty)

On my daily train trips to work, I've been reading the API Reference, what else!....

I love this one....

b2.Body:isSleepingAllowed

I keep asking myself at work, "Body, is sleeping allowed?"
I always get back a false

)

ArtLeeApps · June 2013

Geez @OZApps, so your the coffee drinker! Lol

phongtt · June 2013

Welcome @ArtLeeApps. Hope to see your game soon

Scouser · June 2013

Hi @ArtLeeApps & welcome to the mad fun house

ar2rsawseen · June 2013

I keep asking myself at work, "Body, is sleeping allowed?"
I always get back a false )

)

Platypus · June 2013

@ArtLeeApps

G'day, Arty.
Welcome to the family.

vitalitymobile · June 2013

Hi @ArtLeeApps and welcome!

OZApps · June 2013

Geez @OZApps, so your the coffee drinker! Lol

The point made there was,
1. The forum is all about learning and still includes a lot of off-topic stuff

Spirits and Coffee do not go well with me. I still try to search for Pastis, could not find it anywhere in Australia, majority haven't heard about it and those that have aren't sure if they've seen it anywhere. They mix up Absinthe with Pastis which is not the same. (Off-topic, see how it is)

Mells · June 2013

@OZApps
I used to see Pastis everywhere/every day because my hometown is next to where Pastis was born. Pastis + olives + sea view + pétanque. I might be able to send you a bottle when I return if you really want (by pm).

@ArtLeeApps
Any idea what you were struggling with, and why your apps didn't sell more?

ArtLeeApps · June 2013

@phongtt id like to see it soon too lol

@Scouser thanks, im getting that impression..

@Platypus.. Thank you, is it like a cult.. do i need to walk over a path of broken nokia phones or something ?

@OZApps, yes i can see there is lots of knowledgeable people here! i think ive come to the right place !

My little mark in the world starts here, these are the small Native Android apps that i did early on trying to understand how to build stuff, and publish it, they are not complex

http://www.artleeapps.com/

i then started on a small game in Android, then i decided to switch to a language i could publish on both Android and IOS, so i started again in Gideros..

Expect lots of stupid questions

ArtLeeApps · June 2013

@Mells the first 2 apps are ICE/ICE PRO (basically the same thing, but i could find the first one the searches and thought id rename it), there are a few like it already but i wanted to try build something with listviews/database, and its 0.99c, (so its not world changer.)

The other one is Marco Polo, based on the old game you call out to people, my girlfriend and I recorded our voices and put them into the buttons picking a random recording, to play with making sound, menus, and resizing for different android screens , and using AdMob. Thats the free one.. with 200+ downloads... so all up ive made like around $10 for the apps and the ads lol

OZApps · June 2013

@OZApps
I used to see Pastis everywhere/every day because my hometown is next to where Pastis was born. Pastis + olives + sea view + pétanque. I might be able to send you a bottle when I return if you really want (by pm).

Thanks for that offer, I will PM you but I was looking for both the Olive and the aniseed one, never found that one easily.

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