Desktop support

Question

Desktop support

sarahzrf opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

Would it be possible to add support for using Inkstone on the desktop? I tried running/building it for the browser, and it 95% worked already - there were mostly interface-rendering issues (and I had to enable "simulate touch events" mode).

Shaunak Kishore · Answer 1 · Sat Dec 10 2016 11:18:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey, that's a great idea! I guess the basic approach would be to use Electron with a manifest that forces a mobile user agent. The server would also have to be started (or replaced with a static web server, as in the Cordova build). It sounds very doable.

sarahzrf · Answer 2 · Wed Dec 14 2016 04:14:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Er, I don't know anything about using Electron, Meteor, Cordova... pretty much everything involved in this - so I thought you meant you might look look into implementing this yourself, sorry. Did I misunderstand?

Shaunak Kishore · Answer 3 · Wed Dec 14 2016 12:59:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Got it, I wasn't sure.

I think it would be pretty easy to get the mobile app working, with the mobile UI, as a desktop app, but it would take a bit more time to have a separate UI for desktop that takes advantage of the landscape layout, room for extra control, etc. Do you think getting the first part working would still be useful?

Shaunak Kishore · Answer 4 · Wed Dec 21 2016 14:20:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

What OS are you using? Here's a macOS build using Electron. I would say it's pretty experimental but it runs on my computer: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gi9tutin9qbe8hg/Inkstone.dmg?dl=0

You'll have to drag it to the Applications folder to install it as is normal with macOS apps.

Edit: scratch that, I haven't figured out how to get the touch events working just yet.
Edit 2: touch events now maybe work.

Nick Clarke · Answer 5 · Wed Dec 21 2016 14:34:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

:+1 great work! I'm still interested in getting involved in this project in general, just trying to wrap up some other personal projects first

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sarahzrf · Answer 6 · Thu Dec 22 2016 01:03:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I run Arch. So I can't test that build on my end - but thanks for working on it so far! :)

sarahzrf · Answer 7 · Tue Jan 10 2017 03:16:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey - any progress for a GNU/Linux version?

Shaunak Kishore · Answer 8 · Sat Jan 21 2017 13:33:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi, sorry it took me a while to respond to this! It should be possible to produce a Linux version now, but I can't do it alone, as I only run OSX and Windows at home. Maybe you can try building it? Here are the steps you'd need to follow to do that:

Install NPM (the Node Javascript package manager)
Install Meteor.js
Run "npm install -g electrify"

And then, within the project directory:

Run "git checkout electron"
Run "electrify package"
Copy the contents of the cordova_build_override directory into the packaged app

Unfortunately, I can't give you a command for the last step because the app structure is different for different platforms and I don't know what the Linux version will look like. If you can get to the stage where "electrify package" succeeds and show me the package tree, then I can point out where to copy the data files to.

Let me know if you're up for trying this. If you want, we can set up a time and work through it together - the whole build should take ~10m once we know how to do it. (Debugging any issues we run into may take a while, of course.) Alternatively, maybe I can rent a Linux VM for a bit to try it out.

Nick Clarke · Answer 9 · Sat Jan 21 2017 14:16:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'll try it in a VM as well. Have you released a Windows version?

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On Jan 21, 2017 13:34, "Shaunak Kishore" ***@***.***> wrote: Hi, sorry it took me a while to respond to this! It should be possible to produce a Linux version now, but I can't do it alone, as I only run OSX and Windows at home. Maybe you can try building it? Here are the steps you'd need to follow to do that: - Install NPM (the Node Javascript package manager) - Install Meteor.js <https://www.meteor.com/> - Run "npm install -g electrify" And then, within the project directory: - Run "git checkout electron" - Run "electrify package" - Copy the contents of the cordova_build_override directory into the packaged app Unfortunately, I can't give you a command for the last step because the app structure is different for different platforms and I don't know what the Linux version will look like. If you can get to the stage where "electrify package" succeeds and show me the package tree, then I can point out where to copy the data files to. Let me know if you're up for trying this. If you want, we can set up a time and work through it together - the whole build should take ~10m once we know how to do it. (Debugging any issues we run into may take a while, of course.) Alternatively, maybe I can rent a Linux VM for a bit to try it out. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACE5KFV_EQtfJpYgMhYeHUMx5KByFWhaks5rUZjGgaJpZM4LJZn5> .

Shaunak Kishore · Answer 10 · Sun Jan 22 2017 01:34:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Windows: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uupgyq5xizpkas5/Inkstone.zip?dl=1
OSX: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gi9tutin9qbe8hg/Inkstone.dmg?dl=1

Shaunak Kishore · Answer 11 · Wed Apr 26 2017 11:39:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm closing this issue now that we have desktop support for Windows and OSX, the two platforms I have access to at the moment. I'll open a new one for updating the desktop binaries - the desktop builds are slow so I don't get to them as often as Android.