[ANN]: Ruby/FLTK 0.9.6

[Jeremy Henty]

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


"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
(e-mail address removed)

--
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.
-- Charles Babbage

 

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

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


"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?

 

[Martin DeMello]

- 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]

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


"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/fltk/>.

Jeremy