From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T00:50:13+09:00
Subject: Re: DRAW 1280, 1024

Martin DeMello wrote:

> On 9/9/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
>> Benjohn Barnes wrote:
>> > Personally, I'm on a Mac. If there is a solution for my world, that
>> > would do for me. Something global would rock though.
>>
>> The best I can think of in portability is using wxWidgets / FOX / Gtk to
>> draw inside a 2D buffer in a window / GUI widget.
> 
> I think all the GUI toolkits insist on running their own mainloop,
> which plays badly with IRB

But (IMHO) you shouldn't be using irb anyway. You should be using a user
entry event loop that evaluates the user's entries with "eval".

/ ...

> Doodling over a GUI is of limited use anyway. Simply having a canvas
> you can interactively draw on from IRB is a neat thing. It was one of
> the features I'd planned for FXIrb, but I don't have the time to
> maintain that these days :(

I am at a loss to understand why you think irb is essential to your plan.
There are much better solutions for talking to the user.

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Paul Lutus
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