HTML5 Game for the Mac App Store

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This evening I took a break from tinkering with my HTML5 game to see if I could get it running as a native Cocoa app on OSX. I’d heard that I should be able to create a desktop app, add a WebView, then build and run it. I got it working and wanted to share my results!
  • Create a new Cocoa Application.
  • Add a WebView and expand it to fit the entire app surface.
In the AppDelegate.m file I added this:

-(void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:( NSNotification * ) aNotification {

        NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"index" withExtension:@"html"];

        [[self.webView mainFrame] loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]];

}

In the AppDelegate.h file I added:

    #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
    #import <WebKit/WebKit.h>

    @interface sudolinkAppDelegate : NSObject <NSApplicationDelegate>
    @property (assign) IBOutlet NSWindow *window;
    @property (weak) IBOutlet WebView *webView;
    @end

I added the WebKit Framework.

Finally, I added the content files for my game to the Supporting Files folder.

In order to get these to be copied correctly, I did have to make sure that they were set up in the Build Phases > Copy Bundle Resources for my app.

That’s all there is to it! I’ll post the code on github as soon as I get time, but it’s simple enough to follow along with my instructions above.

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