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| ###Wax is no longer being maintained by @probablycorey | ||
| Wax is now being maintained by Alibaba | ||
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| I am no longer developing iOS applications and don't have time to work on Wax. | ||
| If you would like to take over as the maintainer, [fork](https://github.com/probablycorey/wax/fork) | ||
| Wax and maintain it there. If your fork becomes popular I will add a link to it to this Readme. | ||
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| Wax | ||
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| Wax is a framework that lets you write native iPhone apps in | ||
| [Lua](http://www.lua.org/about.html). It bridges Objective-C and Lua using the | ||
| Objective-C runtime. With Wax, **anything** you can do in Objective-C is **automatically** | ||
| available in Lua! What are you waiting for, give it a shot! | ||
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| Why write iPhone apps in Lua? | ||
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| I love writing iPhone apps, but would rather write them in a dynamic language than in Objective-C. Here | ||
| are some reasons why many people prefer Lua + Wax over Objective-C... | ||
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| * Automatic Garbage Collection! Gone are the days of alloc, retain, and release. | ||
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| * Less Code! No more header files, no more static types, array and dictionary literals! | ||
| Lua enables you to get more power out of less lines of code. | ||
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| * Access to every Cocoa, UITouch, Foundation, etc.. framework, if it's written in Objective-C, | ||
| Wax exposes it to Lua automatically. All the frameworks you love are all available to you! | ||
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| * Super easy HTTP requests. Interacting with a REST webservice has never been eaiser | ||
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| * Lua has closures, also known as blocks! Anyone who has used these before knows how powerful they can be. | ||
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| * Lua has a build in Regex-like pattern matching library. | ||
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| Examples | ||
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| For some simple Wax apps, check out the [examples folder](http://github.com/probablycorey/wax/tree/master/examples/). | ||
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| How would I create a UIView and color it red? | ||
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| -- forget about using alloc! Memory is automatically managed by Wax | ||
| view = UIView:initWithFrame(CGRect(0, 0, 320, 100)) | ||
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| -- use a colon when sending a message to an Objective-C Object | ||
| -- all methods available to a UIView object can be accessed this way | ||
| view:setBackgroundColor(UIColor:redColor()) | ||
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| What about methods with multiple arguments? | ||
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| -- Just add underscores to the method name, then write the arguments like | ||
| -- you would in a regular C function | ||
| UIApplication:sharedApplication():setStatusBarHidden_animated(true, false) | ||
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| How do I send an array/string/dictionary | ||
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| -- Wax automatically converts array/string/dictionary objects to NSArray, | ||
| -- NSString and NSDictionary objects (and vice-versa) | ||
| images = {"myFace.png", "yourFace.png", "theirFace.png"} | ||
| imageView = UIImageView:initWithFrame(CGRect(0, 0, 320, 460)) | ||
| imageView:setAnimationImages(images) | ||
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| What if I want to create a custom UIViewController? | ||
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| -- Created in "MyController.lua" | ||
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| -- Creates an Objective-C class called MyController with UIViewController | ||
| -- as the parent. This is a real Objective-C object, you could even | ||
| -- reference it from Objective-C code if you wanted to. | ||
| waxClass{"MyController", UIViewController} | ||
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| function init() | ||
| -- to call a method on super, simply use self.super | ||
| self.super:initWithNibName_bundle("MyControllerView.xib", nil) | ||
| return self | ||
| end | ||
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| function viewDidLoad() | ||
| -- Do all your other stuff here | ||
| end | ||
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| You said HTTP calls were easy, I don't believe you... | ||
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| url = "http://search.twitter.com/trends/current.json" | ||
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| -- Makes an asyncronous call, the callback function is called when a | ||
| -- response is received | ||
| wax.http.request{url, callback = function(body, response) | ||
| -- request is just a NSHTTPURLResponse | ||
| puts(response:statusCode()) | ||
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| -- Since the content-type is json, Wax automatically parses it and places | ||
| -- it into a Lua table | ||
| puts(body) | ||
| end} | ||
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| Since Wax converts NSString, NSArray, NSDictionary and NSNumber to native Lua values, you have to force objects back to Objective-C sometimes. Here is an example. | ||
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| local testString = "Hello lua!" | ||
| local bigFont = UIFont:boldSystemFontOfSize(30) | ||
| local size = toobjc(testString):sizeWithFont(bigFont) | ||
| puts(size) | ||
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| Setup & Tutorials | ||
| ----------------- | ||
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| [Setting up Wax](https://github.com/probablycorey/wax/wiki/Installation) | ||
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| [How does Wax work?](https://github.com/probablycorey/wax/wiki/Overview) | ||
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| [Simple Twitter client in Wax](https://github.com/probablycorey/wax/wiki/Twitter) | ||
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| Which API's are included? | ||
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| They all are! I can't stress this enough, anything that is written in Objective-C (even external frameworks) will work automatically in Wax! UIAcceleration works like UIAcceleration, MapKit works like MapKit, GameKit works like GameKit, Snozberries taste like Snozberries! | ||
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| Created By | ||
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| Corey Johnson (probablycorey at gmail dot com) | ||
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| More | ||
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| * [Feature Requests? Bugs?](http://github.com/probablycorey/wax/issues) - Issue tracking and release planning. | ||
| * [Mailing List](http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewax) | ||
| * [IRC: #wax](irc://chat.freenode.net/#wax) on http://freenode.net | ||
| * Quick question or problem? IM **probablyCorey** on AIM | ||
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| Contribute | ||
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| Fork it, change it, commit it, push it, send pull request; instant glory! | ||
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| The MIT License | ||
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| Wax is Copyright (C) 2009 Corey Johnson See the file LICENSE for information of licensing and distribution. | ||
| https://github.com/alibaba/wax |