Re: [Rails-devel] [18xx] Programing a Windows 18XX Moderator

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Justin Rebelo <jus...@gm...> wrote:
> Brett,
>
> That's an interesting thought (probably more suited for the rails mail
> list), but do you think that android devices are up to the task? I
> have an android 2.1 smartphone and while I quite like it, the
> processing power on-board doesn't seem to me like it would be up to
> snuff for running something as substantial as rails, even as a
> stripped down moderator interface.
>


Right now, the biggest CPU consumer is the route calculation code. A
stripped down moderator interface likely wouldn't have a map mode at
all, which would eliminate the need for route calculation. So, yes, I
think a smartphone is a viable platform.


> Something that I think COULD work very well on an android device would
> be if you could create a web front-end to rails to serve as a
> moderator so that it has some forms and a dashboard display of some
> sort with game state and then use the rails code to drive the server
> that presents this front-end UI. This would make it essentially
> compatible with any device that can open a browser and make HTTP
> requests (i.e. HTPC appliances, iPads, etc).
>
> I don't know much about java, but I seem to think something like this
> could be in the realm of possibility? Even if there was just an API to
> communicate with a rails server, then anyone could code any type of
> front-end they wish using the API calls to send and receive data
> to/from the server.
>


We've tried to maintain a certain amount of model-view separation for
exactly this reason. The Swing-based front-end is only the default.
Early on in our development, Erik had an HTML-based front-end. It
hasn't seen development in a very long time, but if there's interest,
someone could certainly rekindle that effort.

---Brett.

>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:46 PM, brett lentz <wak...@gm...> wrote:
>> Being that Android apps are effectively Java apps, a couple of months
>> ago I had the thought of investigating the amount of effort it would
>> take to make Rails suitable for Android.  It would be cool to support
>> a mobile version that is more focused on use as a moderator.
>>
>>
>> ---Brett.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Steve Undy <st...@ro...> wrote:
>>> My first suggestion is to make it as cross-platform as possible.  There are
>>> a lot of Mac and Linux users out there.  Running on iOS and Android would be
>>> fantastic, too.
>>>
>>> Steve Undy
>>> st...@ro...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, edpovi <ed...@ya...> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have been working in my free time two write a Windows program that
>>>> run/moderates an 18XX game. While I'm doing this as a personal hobby
>>>> project, I have though that there may be some others that would also
>>>> make use of a Windows App. I thought it would be good to ask here what
>>>> features would be desired for such an application?
>>>>
>>>> I started this due to some difficulty using the "Lemmi"
>>>> moderator, partly because it's in German and partly because of my
>>>> preference of the visual appearance of Windows app over that of a DOS
>>>> app. I'm also using this project to "exercise" my
>>>> programming skills that I haven't used in some years using Visual
>>>> Studio 2010.
>>>>
>>>> I'm working with games I actually own for now and started with the
>>>> relatively simple Railroad Barons. With that game mostly completed,
>>>> I'm now moving on to Poseidon, and eventually to 1856, 1870, 1860,
>>>> and 1853. I also plan to incorporate the new 1830 once that is
>>>> available, and have a copy in my hands.
>>>>
>>>> I plan to design a utility that will be used to generate game
>>>> configuration files that, in principle, will allow other 18XX games to
>>>> be moderated. But, I would need to know which other sets of rules I
>>>> should know to enable this flexibility. Which sets you you suggest?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Ed
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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