[Fxruby-users] C++ Fox widgets to be used in FXRuby ... any way?

[Riccardo G. <ric...@fi...>]

Hi all

I've been a while distracted away from Fox and Ruby, but now I'm back 
and I have a (probably silly) question (probably for Lyle, but I think 
posting on the mailing list is better).

 I have some small C++ Fox widgets that I derived in the past from 
standard ones for my applications; my question is if there is an "easy" 
way to use them in FXRuby; I know I can just get the FXRuby sources, add 
my C++ code and the relative swig wrappers and recompile FXRuby 
including them .. but this means that I'll end working with a non 
official release of FXRuby, and moreover it is an operation I need to 
perform every time an FXRuby new version is released ..  any alternative 
idea?

As always thanks to Jeroen, Lyle and all for Fox people around :)
Riccardo

P.S.
If someone is interested, it will be published on the Proceedings of the 
CHEP conference 2003 (Computing in High Energy Physics) a paper on FRED, 
an event display application written in Ruby and FXRuby. If you are 
interested you can find a preprint here

http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.gr/0306031

P.P.S.
On a completely different topic; does anyone here have any experience 
with QT Python? I'm tring to promote FXRuby and Ruby to some colleagues 
of mine, but they asked why not using QTPy instead; apart the obvious 
licence situation (Fox is free, QT is not, at least for Windows), I have 
no experience with neither Qt or Python to answer their question .. 
someone has tried in the past some sort of comparison? Ok, not so 
important, just a curiosity. Thanks :)

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