From: Ilmari Heikkinen <ilmari.heikkinen@...>
Date: 2006-04-25T02:34:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Squeak-like Ruby env

Hi,
On 4/24/06, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@gmail.com> wrote:> On 4/24/06, Robert Feldt <robert.feldt@gmail.com> wrote:> >> > Comments? Good? Bad? Worth the effort? What about moving FreeRIDE onto> > something like Inertia? Much more freedom in what can be> > visualized/done since there is no GUI framework restricting us...>> I've had thoughts that SDL could be used for a "native" Ruby GUI, and> this just proves that it is entirely possible, if not a good idea.> Certainly within the context of a self-contained "Squeak-like"> programming environment, it makes sense. Adding OpenGL into the mix> just sweetens the pot.>> It would be nice if we could build off of Mike's work on Intertia, but> if that isn't possible, we at least have his work as a> proof-of-concept, and 1500 lines of Ruby code isn't too bad for what> Inertia can do.
I don't want to rain on your parade butre-implementing GUI widgets is a lot of work.Take a simple text editing box for instance:that's one vim (or emacs) worth of code right there.
Not to mention HTML renderers.
Integrating kparts would be a way (  no idea how doable that is though,  ie. how to render a kpart to a texture and  translate input events for it.)

Never got far in re-implementing GUI widgetsso if anyone did, speak up,with the grisly war stories.

Ilmari