[Fxruby-users] Re: Antialiasing in FOX

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

On May 11, 2004, at 8:29 PM, Bill Atkins wrote:

> I'd like to use FOX in one of my projects, but I'd also like to have 
> antialiased
> fonts eventually.  I've heard it mentioned that FOX 1.2 supports it, 
> but the
> FXRuby bindings don't yet work with 1.2.
>
> Is there any schedule for this to happen?  I don't need my app to have
> antialiasing immediately, but I'd like to make sure my toolkit will at 
> least
> have it in the near future.  I'd be willing to help code if it would 
> hasten the
> addition of antialiasing to FXRuby.

First of all, I sincerely appreciate your offer of help. But because I 
don't want FXRuby to significantly "fork" from FOX -- that is, the 
current stable version of FOX -- I really don't want to try to 
back-port FOX 1.2's support for antialiased fonts into FXRuby.

As for the larger question, "When will FXRuby work with FOX 1.2", I am 
still sticking to my vow that it won't be supported until FOX 1.2 has a 
stable API. This is not an arbitrary decision ;)

Some old-timers on the list may remember how things went with FXRuby 
before the FOX 1.0 API was officially "frozen". It was a serious 
dependency nightmare; FXRuby version 0.99.188 would only work with FOX 
version 0.99.188, and not any earlier or later versions. Just that one. 
It would be the same situation with the current development series. It 
is generally true that the FOX 1.1 API changes with each new release 
and that would necessitate a new FXRuby 1.1 specifically aimed at that 
one. I am too old and feeble-minded to keep up that pace. ;)