From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T14:55:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ruby-opengl

On 7/9/06, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
> From: "John Gabriele" <jmg3000@gmail.com>
> > On 7/7/06, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
> > > From: "John Gabriele" <jmg3000@gmail.com>
> > >[snip]
> >
> > I reverted my changes to the method names, so it's back to being
> > "ruby-opengl". Please take a 2nd look.
>
> Awesome!  Much appreciated...  It's a weight off my mind to
> not have to worry about the API changing.
>
>
> BTW, here's one possible way to define the prefixed methods
> and constants, if you prefer to work with them that way.
>
> You could require a file that does something like the
> following:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> require 'opengl'
>
> class Object
>   (GL.methods - Object.methods).each do |m|
>     define_method("gl#{m}") {|*args| GL.send(m, *args)}
>   end
>
>   (GLU.methods - Object.methods).each do |m|
>     define_method("glu#{m}") {|*args| GLU.send(m, *args)}
>   end
> end
>
> GL.constants.each do |c|
>   Object.const_set("GL_#{c}", GL.const_get(c))
> end
>
> GLU.constants.each do |c|
>   Object.const_set("GLU_#{c}", GLU.const_get(c))
> end
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> This should import the GL and GLU methods and constants
> into the global namespace, using their traditional
> prefixed nomenclature.
>
> (Note: Only lightly tested... but I think it works.. :)

It seems to work! Thanks! I just added it (Ilmari had also offered a
solution, which I appreciate very much, but I ended up using yours).
Have a look:

http://www.simisen.com/cgi-bin/jmg/ruby-opengl.rb

I've only tried it so far with samples/smooth.rb. It's late and I
*really* have to get to bed. :)

Thank you again. This is really shaping up nicely, IMO. The current
release is labeled 0.34pre because I'd like to hear from someone
running Mac OS X 10.4 if it builds and runs there out-of-the-box. I'd
also like to "port" more of the samples over (I figure I'll try to
provide at least a good number of samples written in *both* styles).
If anyone wants to help with that, be my guest. :)

Anne, you're on 10.4 ("Tiger" I suppose -- I don't know the Apple
cat-names for them), right? Does this latest release work for you
without any tweaking?

Thanks,
---John