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[Fxruby-users] Windows, PragProg dist, and X

[Hugh S. S. E. E. <hg...@dm...>]

A couple of questions about using FXRuby on Windows:

Can I install FXRuby 1.0.24 on top of the Pragmatic Programmers
Ruby-1.6.8 distribution (of 07-JAN-2003) that I have on the Winxp
machine?  I fairly sure the answer is yes, but can't remember where
I saw this.

Comparing behaviour with Unix, because it has been different,
requires some access to X from Windows so I can see the widgets on
the same screen.  Exceed is expensive (I don't mean value for money
-- it works well, I just mean expenditure), and last time I tried
XFree86 with Cygwin it didn't work.  Do any other alternatives exist
for this?

        Hugh

Re: [Fxruby-users] Windows, PragProg dist, and X

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

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

> Can I install FXRuby 1.0.24 on top of the Pragmatic Programmers
> Ruby-1.6.8 distribution (of 07-JAN-2003) that I have on the Winxp
> machine?  I fairly sure the answer is yes, but can't remember where
> I saw this.

Yes (see Dalibor's response). Follow the "Downloads" link from the 
FXRuby home page at http://www.fxruby.org. For anyone else reading this 
response, please note that I'll probably drop support for the 1.7.3 
build of Ruby "real soon now", especially since Ruby 1.8.0 is about to 
become the new stable release. I will probably continue to support Ruby 
1.6.8 for some time.

Re: [Fxruby-users] Windows, PragProg dist, and X

[Hugh S. S. E. E. <hg...@dm...>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> Yes (see Dalibor's response). Follow the "Downloads" link from the
> FXRuby home page at http://www.fxruby.org. For anyone else reading this
> response, please note that I'll probably drop support for the 1.7.3
> build of Ruby "real soon now", especially since Ruby 1.8.0 is about to
> become the new stable release. I will probably continue to support Ruby
> 1.6.8 for some time.

Thank you.  That strategy would be the most helpful to your users
AFAICS.  Thank you for your continuing support.

        Hugh
>
>

Re: [Fxruby-users] Windows, PragProg dist, and X

[Hugh S. S. E. E. <hg...@dm...>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> Yes (see Dalibor's response). Follow the "Downloads" link from the
> FXRuby home page at http://www.fxruby.org. For anyone else reading this

OK, I have the FXRuby-1.0.24-ruby168.exe.  Do I need to uninstall
the previous files, or will this installer sort all that out?  (It
might be worth putting the info on the site itself, as well.) The
installer may explain this, but I won't know if it doesn't until
it's too late :-)

        Thank you,
        Hugh