Re: [Fxruby-users] FOX & FXRuby in print...

[Richard K. <ri...@in...>]

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 03:04  PM, ly...@kn... wrote:

> FYI:
>
> The recently published "Jabber Developer's Guide", by Dana Moore and 
> William
> Wright, includes an example program written in Ruby and using FXRuby 
> (the
> Ruby binding to FOX) for its graphical user interface.
>
> The program is, I think, a modified version of the imageviewer.rb 
> example
> program from the FXRuby distribution, which in turn is based on the
> imageviewer.cpp example program from the regular FOX distribution. I 
> didn't

It is...sorry if there is not attribution....

> study the example too closely, but I think it was basically 
> transferring
> data about images between different instances of the application using 
> the
> Jabber (http://www.jabber.org) protocol. I am pretty sure that Rich 
> Kilmer
> (author of the jabber4r extension, as well as one of the primary 
> FreeRIDE
> developers) was the author of this example program -- so thanks, Rich!

I did...it literally took 10 minutes.  They asked me at work one day if 
I could write an image transfer app in Ruby over Jabber.  I said 
"sure...no problem", and 10 minutes later I stunned them.  As you can 
see from the example, with Fox being as easy as it is (and the 
Imageviewer providing a lot of code) and Jabber4r is really simple 
too...it was cake (just base64 encode the image data and send in a 
jabber IM).

But the thanks go to you Lyle for all your work on FXRuby!

-rich