[ruby-fltk-users] Announcement: Ruby/FLTK 0.9.6

[Jeremy H. <je...@ch...>]

Ruby/FLTK 0.9.6 , 2007-01-09 
http://ruby-fltk.sourceforge.net/


"Graphical functions of FLTK for make benefit glorious language of Ruby"



What is this?:

Ruby/FLTK is a Ruby binding for the FLTK (Fast, Light Toolkit) GUI
library.


Headlines!: 
- Having languished somewhat in late 2006, Ruby/FLTK returns with a
  fat ChangeLog in 2007.
- A new class FLTK::Spinner (if your FLTK version is >= 1.1.7).
- All of FLTK's enumeration values and constant macros are bound to
  Ruby constants (with a few justifiable exceptions).
- Several new FLTK class methods (see ChangeLog).
- Convenience I: if FLTK.color receives a block it yields and then
  restores the original color.
- Convenience II: you can invoke #{rectf,rect,push_clip,pop_clip} on
  widget objects and the boundary of the widget will be used as the
  rectangle.
- FLTK.{choice,input,password} sprintf their arguments in the same way
  as their counterparts in FLTK (NB: FLTK.{message,alert,ask} already
  did this).
- New non-sprintf-ing methods
  FLTK.{message0,alert0,ask0,choice0,input0,password0} (NB: you should
  switch to these methods if you did not realise that their cousins
  call sprintf, as it will fix subtle bugs that appear when the
  argument contains a'%' ).
- Big cleanup of tests and sample scripts, plus a few additions.

Details are in the Release Notes and the ChangeLog.

The focus for version 0.9.7 will be: 
  * Push towards full coverage of FLTK's global functions and Fl::*
    methods.
  * Any suggestions?


Regards, 

Jeremy Henty 
jer...@so...

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