fxruby-announce — Low-traffic announcements list for FXRuby

[Fxruby-announce] [ANN] FXRuby-1.0.24 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

All,
 
FXRuby-1.0.24 is now available for download from:
 
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243
 
This is mainly a bug-fix release; for the complete list of changes since
version 1.0.23, see:
 
    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html
 
Enjoy!
 
Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] [ANN] Updated API Documentation

[Lyle J. <jl...@cf...>]

All,

I've completed the first pass through the FXRuby API documentation, 
which is posted here:

     http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api

By first pass, I simply mean that I think all of the classes and their 
methods and attributes are at least *listed* here. IMO this is now a 
much better choice than reading the C++ API documentation and trying to 
"translate" that from C++ to Ruby. For example, all of the messages that 
various widgets can send to their targets are documented.

More can and should be done. On the "second pass", I want to do a better 
job of documenting the types of the method arguments. For example, take 
a look at the documentation for FX4Splitter's initialize method:

     http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/classes/Fox/FX4Splitter.html

Here, the individual method arguments and their types are listed in a 
sort of table, similar to the format used for JavaDoc. I'd like to use 
this approach throughout the documentation.

Another goal is to add short code examples, where appropriate. I'm 
trying to decide what is the right balance between reference 
documentation -- which is the intent -- and the more expositional style 
that you will see in the FXRuby book, due out in approximately the year 
2020 ;)

Anyways, hope this is useful and please give me some feedback about what 
other kinds of information we can show here.

Thanks,

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] [ANN] FXRuby Users Mailing List Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

All,

Due to the increasing volume of support requests, etc. I've decided to set
up a general discussion-style mailing list for FXRuby users. Details about
how to subscribe to this mailing list are posted on the FXRuby home page:

    http://www.fxruby.org

I would invite anyone interested in FXRuby development to please subscribe
to this list; my intent is for this list to be the "first stop" for general
questions about FXRuby. Note however that I will continue to monitor both
the foxgui-users and ruby-talk mailing lists for FXRuby-related posts, and
do my best to respond to those as well.

Thanks,

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] [ANN] FXRuby-1.0.23 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

All,
 
FXRuby-1.0.23 is now available for download from:
 
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243
 
This is mainly a bug-fix release; for the complete list of changes since
version 1.0.22, see:
 
    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html
 
Enjoy!
 
Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] [ANN] FXRuby-1.0.22 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

All,
 
FXRuby-1.0.22 is now available for download from:
 
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243
 
This is mainly a bug-fix release; for the complete list of changes since
version 1.0.21, see:
 
    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html
 
Enjoy!
 
Lyle 

[Fxruby-announce] [ANN] FXRuby-1.0.21 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

All,

FXRuby-1.0.21 is now available for download from the SourceForge site:

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243

This is primarily a bug-fix release, but there's been a lot of progress on
the API documentation as well. For a list of all the changes since version
1.0.20, see:

    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html

Enjoy,

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] ANN: FXRuby-1.0.20 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

All,

A new release of FXRuby is now available for download. This is primarily a
bug-fix release; see the change notes (URL below) for a list of the changes.

Blurb follows...

I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing
graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and
growing, collection of widgets, and provides state-of-the-art facilities
such as drag-and-drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3-D
graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and
user-convenience features such as status line help and tooltips.

Please see the comments on the home page concerning any problems with this
release, or the change log:

    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html

to see what has changed since the previous release.

The FXRuby home page is here:

    http://www.fxruby.org

and the source tarball can be downloaded from the SourceForge site:

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243

Binary installers for Windows, compatible with the Pragmatic Programmers'
Ruby installers, are also available at the download site.

Note that this release of FXRuby depends on FOX version 1.0.x, which can be
downloaded from the FOX downloads page here:

    http://www.fox-toolkit.org/download.html

Please feel free to send me any questions or comments, and watch this space
for future announcements!

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] ANN: FXRuby-1.0.19 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

All,

FXRuby-1.0.19 is now available for download from:

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243

This is mainly a bug-fix release; for the complete list of changes since
version 1.0.18, see:

    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html

Enjoy!

Lyle 

[Fxruby-announce] ANN: FXRuby-1.0.18 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

All,

The latest release of FXRuby is now available for download:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243&release_id=136352

In addition to the usual assortment of bug fixes and other changes, this
release includes the "preview" API documentation in RDoc style. For a
complete list of the changes for this release, please see:

	http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html

Enjoy,

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] ANN: FXRuby-1.0.17 Now Available

[Lyle J. <ly...@us...>]

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All,

The latest version of FXRuby is now available for download from the
SourceForge downloads page here:

~    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243

The source tarball, as well as installers for Ruby 1.6.7 and Ruby 1.7.3
on Windows, are available.

This is primarily a bug-fix release; for a list of the changes in this
release, please see:

~    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html

Enjoy,

Lyle
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RE: [Fxruby-announce] Re: [ANN] FXRuby-1.0.14 Now Available

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

> The last few versions no longer build for me. I get this:
> 
> FXRuby.cpp:258: cannot convert `VALUE' to `void *' for 
> argument `1' to `rb_gc_mark (void *)'
> make: *** [FXRuby.o] Error 1
> setup failed
> 'system make' failed
> try 'ruby install.rb --help' for usage
> 
> 
> Any idea what's going on here?
> 
> This is on Ruby 1.6.7, but with the header file mods needed 
> for compilation.

The corrected prototype for rb_gc_mark() [from the latest CVS sources
for Ruby 1.6] is:

	void rb_gc_mark(VALUE);

and so you should "fix the fix" accordingly. You are absolutely correct
that in FXRuby releases 1.0.12 and earlier, the instructions were to
change the prototype to expect a void* argument, which was consistent
with the implementation of rb_gc_mark() at that time. When this
prototype was "officially" corrected in the Ruby 1.6 sources, I changed
the build instructions accordingly -- but I failed to make a big deal
about it in the change history for the 1.0.13 release (my oversight).

[Fxruby-announce] Re: [ANN] FXRuby-1.0.14 Now Available

[Ian M. <ia...@ca...>]

On Wed 16 Oct 2002 at 05:32:11 +0900, ly...@kn... wrote:

> I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
> bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit.

The last few versions no longer build for me. I get this:

FXRuby.cpp:258: cannot convert `VALUE' to `void *' for argument `1' to `rb_gc_mark (void *)'
make: *** [FXRuby.o] Error 1
setup failed
'system make' failed
try 'ruby install.rb --help' for usage


Any idea what's going on here?

This is on Ruby 1.6.7, but with the header file mods needed for
compilation.

Ian
-- 
Ian Macdonald               | Bipolar, adj.:  Refers to someone who has
ia...@ca...             | homes in Nome, Alaska, and Buffalo, New
                            | York. 
                            | 
                            | 

[Fxruby-announce] [ANN] FXRuby-1.0.14 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing
graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and
growing, collection of widgets, and provides state-of-the-art facilities
such as drag-and-drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3-D
graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and
user-convenience features such as status line help and tooltips.

Please see the comments on the home page concerning any problems with this
release, or the change log:

    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html

to see what has changed since the previous release.

The FXRuby home page is here:

    http://www.fxruby.org

and the source tarball can be downloaded here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.14.tar.gz

A binary installer for Windows, compatible with the mswin32-based versions
of Ruby 1.6.7 for Windows, is available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.14-ruby167.exe

and a Linux RPM (for Ruby 1.6) will soon be available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.14-1.i386.rpm

Note that this release of FXRuby depends on FOX version 1.0.x, which can be
downloaded from the FOX downloads page here:

    http://www.fox-toolkit.org/download.html

Please feel free to send me any questions or comments, and watch this space
for future announcements!

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] ANN: FXRuby-1.0.13 (Changes)

[<ly...@kn...>]

At Sander's request (a good one), here's a direct link to the change history:

    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html

Hope this helps,

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] ANN: FXRuby-1.0.13 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing
graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and
growing, collection of widgets, and provides state-of-the-art facilities
such as drag-and-drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3-D
graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and
user-convenience features such as status line help and tooltips.

Please see the comments on the home page concerning any problems with this
release, or the change log to see what has changed since the previous release.

The FXRuby home page is here:

    http://www.fxruby.org

and the source tarball can be downloaded here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.13.tar.gz

A binary installer for Windows, compatible with the mswin32-based versions
of Ruby 1.6.x for Windows, is available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.13-win32.exe

and a Linux RPM (for Ruby 1.6) is available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.13-1.i386.rpm

Note that this release of FXRuby depends on FOX version 1.0.x, which can be
downloaded from the FOX downloads page here:

    http://www.fox-toolkit.org/download.html

Please feel free to send me any questions or comments, and watch this space
for future announcements!

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] ANN: FXRuby-1.0.12 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing
graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and
growing, collection of widgets, and provides state-of-the-art facilities
such as drag-and-drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3-D
graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and
user-convenience features such as status line help and tooltips.

Please see the comments on the home page concerning any problems with this
release, or the change log to see what has changed since the previous release.

The FXRuby home page is here:

    http://www.fxruby.org

and the source tarball can be downloaded here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.12.tar.gz

A binary installer for Windows, compatible with the mswin32-based versions
of Ruby 1.6.x for Windows, is available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.12-win32.exe

and a Linux RPM (for Ruby 1.6) is available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.12-1.i386.rpm

Note that this release of FXRuby depends on FOX version 1.0.0 (or later),
which can be downloaded from the FOX downloads page here:

    http://www.fox-toolkit.org/download.html

Please feel free to send me any questions or comments, and watch this space
for future announcements!

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] ANNOUNCE: FXRuby-1.0.11 Now Available

[Lyle J. <jl...@cf...>]

I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing
graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and
growing, collection of widgets, and provides state-of-the-art facilities
such as drag-and-drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3-D
graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and
user-convenience features such as status line help and tooltips.

Please see the comments on the home page concerning any problems with this
release, or the change log to see what has changed since the previous
release.

The FXRuby home page is here:

    http://www.fxruby.org

and the source tarball can be downloaded here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.11.tar.gz

A binary installer for Windows, compatible with the mswin32-based versions
of Ruby 1.6.x for Windows, is available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.11-win32.exe

and a Linux RPM (for Ruby 1.6) is available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.11-1.i386.rpm

Note that this release of FXRuby depends on FOX version 1.0.0 (or later),
which
can be downloaded from the FOX downloads page here:

    http://www.fox-toolkit.org/download.html

Please feel free to send me any questions or comments, and watch this space
for future announcements!

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] ANNOUNCE: FXRuby-1.0.10 Now Available

[Lyle J. <jl...@cf...>]

I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing
graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and
growing, collection of widgets, and provides state-of-the-art facilities
such as drag-and-drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3-D
graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and
user-convenience features such as status line help and tooltips.

Please see the comments on the home page concerning any problems with this
release, or the change log to see what has changed since the previous
release.

The FXRuby home page is here:

    http://www.fxruby.org

and the source tarball can be downloaded here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.10.tar.gz

A binary installer for Windows, compatible with the mswin32-based versions
of Ruby 1.6.x for Windows, is available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.10-win32.exe

and a Linux RPM (for Ruby 1.6) is available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.10-1.i386.rpm

Note that this release of FXRuby depends on FOX version 1.0.0 (or later),
which
can be downloaded from the FOX downloads page here:

    http://www.fox-toolkit.org/downloads.html

Please feel free to send me any questions or comments, and watch this space
for future announcements!

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] ANNOUNCE: FXRuby-1.0.3 Now Available

[Lyle J. <ljo...@re...>]

I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing
graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and
growing, collection of widgets, and provides state-of-the-art facilities
such as drag-and-drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3-D
graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and
user-convenience features such as status line help and tooltips.

Please see the comments on the home page concerning any problems with this
release, or the change log to see what has changed since the previous
release.

The FXRuby home page is here:

    http://fxruby.sourceforge.net

and the source tarball can be downloaded here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.3.tar.gz

A binary installer for Windows, compatible with the mswin32-based versions
of Ruby 1.6.x for Windows, is also available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.3-win32.exe

Note that this release of FXRuby depends on FOX version 1.0.0 (or later),
which
can be downloaded from the FOX downloads page here:

    http://www.fox-toolkit.org/downloads.html

Please feel free to send me any questions or comments, and watch this space
for future announcements!

Lyle

---
J. Lyle Johnson
Software Team Lead
Bioinformatics Department
ResGen, Invitrogen Corporation
2130 S. Memorial Parkway
Huntsville, Alabama 35801
(800) 533-4363 x74430

[Fxruby-announce] [ANN] FXRuby-0.99.189 Now Available

[Johnson, L. <LJo...@re...>]

All,

FXRuby-0.99.189 is now available for download from the FXRuby project page
on SourceForge:


http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243&release_id=71799

This one's a fairly minor upgrade, and if you're already running version
0.99.188 you probably don't need this one. But for the curious, here's the
change log:


http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=20243&release_id=71799

and as always, the home page is found here:

    http://fxruby.sourceforge.net

Please note that the Windows installer for FXRuby-0.99.189 was compiled
using Cygwin and is still compatible with the current Pragmatic Programmers'
build of Ruby 1.6.5. I have also submitted to Andy Hunt a different build,
using Visual C++, which should get bundled with the next Ruby installer for
Windows. From that point on, all of my binary releases of FXRuby on Windows
will be based on Visual C++ to maintain compatibility with Andy's installer,
i.e. they won't be Cygwin-based. You will still be able to compile Cygwin
versions from the source code if you wish, you just won't be getting them
from me ;)

Enjoy,

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] ANN: FXRuby-0.99.188 Now Available

[Lyle J. <ljo...@re...>]

All,

I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby (for use with
fox-0.99.188). In addition to the updates for compatibility with
fox-0.99.188, this release incorporates several patches so that the code
compiles properly under Microsoft Visual C++ for use with that build of
Ruby. For more information, please check the changes list:


http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=20243&release_id=68806

and to download, check the downloads page here:

	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243

and as always, the FXRuby home page is here:

	http://fxruby.sourceforge.net

Enjoy!

---
J. Lyle Johnson
Principal Software Engineer
Bioinformatics Department
ResGen, Invitrogen Corporation
2130 S. Memorial Parkway
Huntsville, Alabama 35801
(800) 533-4363 x74430

[Fxruby-announce] ANNOUNCE: FXRuby-0.99.181

[Lyle J. <ljo...@re...>]

Note: There is a lot of confusion about FXRuby-0.99.180 since fox-0.99.180
is not listed on the FOX downloads page, so here is a minor update. If
you've already got FXRuby-0.99.180 built and working, it's probably not
worth your while to get this one.

I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing
graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and
growing, collection of widgets, and provides state-of-the-art facilities
such as drag-and-drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3-D
graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and
user-convenience features such as status line help and tooltips.

Please see the comments on the home page concerning any problems with this
release, or the change log to see what has changed since the previous
release.

The FXRuby home page is here:

    http://fxruby.sourceforge.net

and the source tarball can be downloaded here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-0.99.181.tar.gz

A binary installer for Windows, compatible with the Cygwin-based versions of
Ruby 1.6.x for Windows, is also available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-0.99.181-win32.exe

Note that this release of FXRuby depends on FOX version 0.99.181, which
can be downloaded from here:

    ftp://ftp.fox-toolkit.org/pub/fox-0.99.181.tar.gz

Please feel free to send me any questions or comments, and watch this space
for future announcements!

Lyle

---
J. Lyle Johnson
Principal Software Engineer
Bioinformatics Department
ResGen, Invitrogen Corporation
2130 S. Memorial Parkway
Huntsville, Alabama 35801
(800) 533-4363 x74430

[Fxruby-announce] ANNOUNCE: FXRuby-0.99.180 Now Available

[Lyle J. <ljo...@re...>]

The latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language bindings for FOX, are now
available for download from the FXRuby home page:

	http://fxruby.sf.net

A complete list of changes is available at the home page, but the most
significant is a revamped approach to assigning message handlers for
widgets. Instead of the tedious process of generating new message
identifiers, setting up a message map, etc. you can now simply attach a code
block to a widget, e.g.

	aButton = FXButton.new(parent, "Push Me!")
	aButton.connect(SEL_COMMAND) { |sender, sel, ptr|
		puts "Color me pushed"
	}

This approach is much more compact and Ruby-ish, especially for quick little
button-press handlers and the like. This system is built on top of the old
one and so it's completely back-compatible when you need the added
flexibility of the old approach. For more information, see the FXRuby user's
guide.

Enjoy!

Lyle

---
J. Lyle Johnson
Principal Software Engineer
Bioinformatics Department
ResGen, Invitrogen Corporation
2130 S. Memorial Parkway
Huntsville, Alabama 35801
(800) 533-4363 x74430