*Possible* Networking with Photon

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• Apollo14 Member

  August 2018 edited August 2018

  This is totally cool and awesome!!

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• totebo Member

  September 2018

  How did you get on @gbison? Photon support is a big deal, so if I can help in any way, let me know.

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• Apollo14 Member

  September 2018

  totebo said:

  How did you get on @gbison? Photon support is a big deal, so if I can help in any way, let me know.

  I guess the most straightforward way is to adapt their existing lib for Corona SDK:
  https://www.photonengine.com/sdks#realtimecorona

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• PaulR Member, Maintainer

  September 2018

  Their Corona lua file is actually a 402KB blob of compiled bytecode. I understand them not wanting to open source their product, but it would seem more flexible to have a proprietary file and another open source one for the final network messaging, which should be generic code not worth protecting.
  
  Wrapping the C++ library as a plugin is possible too.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  September 2018

  @PaulR There are tools 'available' on the net to de-compile the Corona lua stuff back to source code. The same goes for their encryption.
  
  It's best to get an .IPA version as I think Corona still export encrypted source code because of the issues with 32 and 64 bit versions of Lua and Apple insisting on having 64 bit code (Gideros Lua has been modified to fix this for universal bytecode).
  
  That will possibly get you back to the source, comments and all.

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• PaulR Member, Maintainer

  September 2018 edited September 2018

  It sounds easier them splitting the file up into two parts!

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