From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-01-22T18:15:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [Newbie] Use FXRuby to move an image on a canvas?

Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:50:58 +0900, Einar Buffer <ebuffer@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > As a learning exercise, I'm planning on writing a simple card game in Ruby,
> > using FXRuby for graphics. I'd like the user to be able to grab a card using
> > the mouse, and move it to a new location. Is that supported by FXRuby at the
> > moment? In the FXRuby User's Guide online, it seems that the functionality
> > I'm talking about is on the to-do list, but is that up to date? And finally,
> > if it's not supported - have any of you implemented such a widget e.g. in
> > C++ and used it in FXRuby? Is that hard to do?
> 
> There is no such widget in FXRuby at this time, and I'm not aware that
> anyone's written one. If you get any leads on this I'd like to hear
> about it!

I don't know why frameworks after Tk haven't embraced the desperately
useful concept of a vecotr canvas :( I really miss it when using Fox -
sadly, the rest of Tk is fairly ugly, but if I'm doing a
canvas-intensive app, it's really the best option.

martin