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Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by littlelingo, Aug 29, 2006.

  1. littlelingo

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    Anyone know if it is possible to export a Unity scene out so that I can import into Interface Builder as a palette and bind to it?

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  2. hsparra

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    That would be neat, like Quartz Composer. I think the answer though will be no.
     
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  3. littlelingo

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    Yup, that was totally the thought. :)

    We got some pretty interesting "stuff" going here revolving around behavior models and the lot and want to wrap Unity into it... Oh well, I guess we can work another angle.

    Thanks for the reply!

    -- Clint
     
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  4. Morgan

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    Can you make do with a webplayer and a WebKit view?
     
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  5. littlelingo

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    That was sort of the workaround we were going to do. The problem is binding and I can't see a way to bind to Unity internals, like with Core Data for example.

    Maybe a plugin or something? Haven't looked into those much... Anyone have any thoughts or ideas?

    Thanks!

    -- Clint
     
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  6. hsparra

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    Could you pass datat back and forth through Javascript objects through Web Kit? http://developer.apple.com/document...tent/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000164i There is a section on using JavaScript from Objective-C.

    I am not sure exactly how you would do it. Perhaps you could go through the DOM. I am sure the thought of that might make some people sick :)

    You could also create a real basic webserver on one of the ports and use the WWW class to retrieve data.
     
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  7. Joachim_Ante

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    Unity 1.6 will have support for direct browser js communication, so this should help a lot with getting it tightly integrated with WebKit and IB. I haven't tried but i am fairly certain it would work well, our dashboard widgets work in a very similar way.

    Until then, lfrog last suggestion with the WWW class sounds like a fine workaround.
     
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  8. littlelingo

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    Cool good to know that is coming! Any ideas on when 1.6 might be coming out so we can gauge a timeframe versus effort type deal?

    As far as the information the lfrog sent, THANKS! :) We will research that a bit more and see what we can cobble together. I know what we are really trying to accomplish is to tie this all back to Core Data so not sure if either options will allow that.

    Thanks again!

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    -- Clint
     
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  9. hsparra

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    WooHoo! Even a blind dog gets lucky :D
    No problem. You might want to look up setting up your own mediating controller object, that way you can still use bindings.
    http://developer.apple.com/document...unicatingWithObjects/chapter_6_section_6.html
    has lots of good links and this link discusses mediating controllers
    http://developer.apple.com/document...4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002974-CH6-SW8
     
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  10. littlelingo

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    Excellent lfrog! Thanks for the additional insight!

    Regards,

    -- Clint
     
    littlelingo, Aug 29, 2006
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