Re: [ruby-fltk-devel] My "real" project

[Takaaki T. <tt...@ja...>]

At Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:07:07 -0700 (PDT),
Kevin Smith wrote:
> I spent most of today porting my Space Monkeys game from
> GTK to FLTK. It has gone really smoothly, and the code is
> definitely simpler in FTLK. It's good to see a real
> application using our work.

It's great!

> I thought I would need idle or timeouts, but I ended up
> changing the structure so I don't need them. The game is
> now completely functional, but I don't like the way the
> command buttons work, so I'm going to change that.

I think it would be effective to use Thread and sleep in
your ruby script now. For example:

button.callback(somedata){|win,data|
  Thread.start{
    sleep(anytime)
    ...
  }
}

But in current version of Ruby/FLTK, threads is scheduled at
intervals of 0.5sec. This mechanism is implemented using
add_timeout() and repeat_timeout(), and you can see it in
fltk.cc.
Of course, we should implement add_timeout() and add_idle()
in the *near* future. I will add those function in this week.

> I can definitely see that I want to add more classes in
> fltk.rb:
> - RadioButton class, that wraps RoundButton, automatically
> sets the button type, and automatically sizes itself
> - PushButton class that can automatically size itself
> - ComboBox class that combines an editor with a listbox

I agree with you. Practically, we often want to use ComboBox,
but it takes a few time to create ComboxBox class.

> I'm also really looking forward to the layout management
> stuff that will be in FLTK 2. Pack is not very good, and I
> hate placing widgets individually.

I also think so.
-- 
Takaaki Tateishi <tt...@ja...>