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

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

Riccardo Giannitrapani wrote:

> 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?

Is it possible to port the C++ code for those widgets to Ruby? One of 
the goals for FXRuby is that you can do most anything with it that you 
could with the C++ library, including subclassing existing widgets to 
build new ones.