RE: [rgui-dev] RE: Backend Debouch

[Rich Kilmer]

Hello everyone...I was wondering where all the FreeRIDE folks went to
;-)

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Curt Hibbs
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:17 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [rgui-dev] RE: Backend Debouch
> 
> 
> Laurent Julliard wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > please consider all this carefully. i can tell you are 
> very psyched 
> > > about the idea of having a "SWT for Ruby" and that certainly has 
> > > merit. perhaps too, you believe by lifting the SWT code 
> we can get 
> > > this done faster. i can understand both these thoughts. but be 
> > > reassured, while our work may not be as refined as SWT 
> for awhile, 
> > > we will actually have a basic working system of extrodinary 
> > > capability beyond that of SWT in rather short order.
> > >
> >
> > I don't think my view is incompatible with yours. What I'm 
> saying is 
> > that SWT is a great source of inspiration on how to *do* 
> (=implement) 
> > things from an engineering standpoint. If you have it right 
> like the 
> > SWT people did then you can confortably build any level of 
> > sophistication in pure Ruby either in terms of widgets or 
> programming 
> > model.
> 
> Laurent is doing a good job of pushing/supporting the SWT 
> approach, so I won't repeat any of that other than to say I 
> agree with him 100%.
> 
> Having said that, my real motive is to have an usable GUI 
> toolkit for FreeRIDE (and Ruby applications built using 
> FreeRIDE). I will support *any* effort that promises to give 
> me that. However, my personal *ideal* solution would have an 
> SWT-Ruby at the low-level and GUtopIa at the high-level.
> 
> Curt

I am also interested in Laurent's approach, especially the parsing of
the existing C code and generating Ruby-C code...or better yet, Ruby/DL
code ( http://kt-www.jaist.ac.jp/~ttate/ruby/ruby-dl.html ). Ruby/DL is
included in 1.7.2 now and lets you call .dll/.so files w/out writing (or
having to compile) C extensions.  Anyway, if we need to parse C code I
have been working with rlex and ryacc so we could get a
tokenizer/grammer file for the C code and build a translator to Ruby/C
or Ruby/DL.  Sounds like FUN :-)

-rich