From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2007-11-05T19:46:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Drawing in ruby (antigrain bindings)


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> Datum: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 08:48:48 +0900
> Von: Emmanuel Oga <oga_emmanuel_oga@yahoo.com.ar>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: Drawing in ruby (antigrain bindings)

> Hi! I'm needing a good drawing solution for ruby. All the present
> options are ugly IMHO, because require a very big framework to work
> (cairo needs GTK bindings for ruby for working out of the box in
> windows, don't know how it is on linux). ImageMagick seems to be hated
> by rubyists everywhere, due to some memory leaks or something....
> 
> I found a very criptic reference to a ruby bindings for antigrain in
> this 2005 "nostalgia" post :) :
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/35c2f61d29e94550/28b32a50948920ba
> 
> Does anybody know if there any news about antigrain bindings for ruby?
> 
> Thanks!�
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Dear Emanuel,

as antigrain seems to be written in C++, you may be able to use it
in conjunction with Ruby via SWIG:

http://www.swig.org/

There are some examples on how to do that here:
http://www.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/~fukusima/ruby/swig-examples/

Best regards,

Axel 
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