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[ANN]: Ruby/FLTK 0.9.6

Jeremy Henty

1/9/2007 2:42:00 PM


Ruby/FLTK 0.9.6 , 2007-01-09
http://ruby-fltk.source...


"Graphical functions of FLTK for make benefit glorious language of Ruby"



What is this?:

Ruby/FLTK is a Ruby binding for the FLTK (Fast, Light Toolkit) GUI
library.


Headlines!:
- Having languished somewhat in late 2006, Ruby/FLTK returns with a
fat ChangeLog in 2007.
- A new class FLTK::Spinner (if your FLTK version is >= 1.1.7).
- All of FLTK's enumeration values and constant macros are bound to
Ruby constants (with a few justifiable exceptions).
- Several new FLTK class methods (see ChangeLog).
- Convenience I: if FLTK.color receives a block it yields and then
restores the original color.
- Convenience II: you can invoke #{rectf,rect,push_clip,pop_clip} on
widget objects and the boundary of the widget will be used as the
rectangle.
- FLTK.{choice,input,password} sprintf their arguments in the same way
as their counterparts in FLTK (NB: FLTK.{message,alert,ask} already
did this).
- New non-sprintf-ing methods
FLTK.{message0,alert0,ask0,choice0,input0,password0} (NB: you should
switch to these methods if you did not realise that their cousins
call sprintf, as it will fix subtle bugs that appear when the
argument contains a'%' ).
- Big cleanup of tests and sample scripts, plus a few additions.

Details are in the Release Notes and the ChangeLog.

The focus for version 0.9.7 will be:
* Push towards full coverage of FLTK's global functions and Fl::*
methods.
* Any suggestions?


Regards,

Jeremy Henty
jeremy_henty@sourceforge.net

--
On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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3 Answers

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

1/9/2007 3:13:00 PM

0

Jeremy Henty wrote:
> Ruby/FLTK 0.9.6 , 2007-01-09
> http://ruby-fltk.source...
>
>
> "Graphical functions of FLTK for make benefit glorious language of Ruby"
>
>
>
> What is this?:
>
> Ruby/FLTK is a Ruby binding for the FLTK (Fast, Light Toolkit) GUI
> library.
>
>
> Headlines!:
> - Having languished somewhat in late 2006, Ruby/FLTK returns with a
> fat ChangeLog in 2007
[snip]
> The focus for version 0.9.7 will be:
> * Push towards full coverage of FLTK's global functions and Fl::*
> methods.
> * Any suggestions?
>
On towards 1.0!! :)
Seriously, though, I was hoping there was an FLTK Ruby binding -- why
should Tk, Gtk, Qt and Fox have all the fun?

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blo...

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire.

Martin DeMello

1/9/2007 3:22:00 PM

0

On 1/9/07, Jeremy Henty <jeremy@chaos.org.uk> wrote:
> - Convenience I: if FLTK.color receives a block it yields and then
> restores the original color.
> - Convenience II: you can invoke #{rectf,rect,push_clip,pop_clip} on
> widget objects and the boundary of the widget will be used as the
> rectangle.

Very nice touches indeed.

martin

Jeremy Henty

1/9/2007 10:05:00 PM

0

On 2007-01-09, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Jeremy Henty wrote:
>> Ruby/FLTK 0.9.6 , 2007-01-09
>> http://ruby-fltk.source...
>>
>>
>> "Graphical functions of FLTK for make benefit glorious language of Ruby"
>> [...]
>> * Any suggestions?
>>
> On towards 1.0!! :)

Thanks, but there's a way to go yet. The core architecture's all in
place but there are lots of FLTK methods not yet wrapped (check
Coverage.txt for a summary).

> ... I was hoping there was an FLTK Ruby binding -- why should Tk,
> Gtk, Qt and Fox have all the fun?

Incidentally, the FLTK developers' mailing list just announced a beta
of Ruby/FLTK2 . Nothing to do with me, though I'm hoping to give it a
look (*provided* I can keep up the momentum of Ruby/FLTK *and* find
some spare development time). It's at
<URL:http://rubyforge.org/projects....

Jeremy