From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2009-12-11T14:32:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Design tool Jeszra 0.1 for Ruby Tk

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Arndt Roger Schneider
<arndt.roger@web.de> wrote:
> Hi all Ruby-Tk Users and Developers.
>
> I am pleased to announce the first
> public release of Jeszra (0.1).
>
> http://jeszra.sourceforge.net
>
> Jeszra is a visual design tool, written
> in Tcl/Tk, which combines 2D vector graphics
> and Graphical User Interface design.
>
> Jeszra generates RUBY (Ruby-Tk) wrapper classes for
> the components developed within Jeszra.
> Through Jeszra all Tcl/Tk control become
> available to a Ruby application.
>
> Jeszra also generates DocBook manual pages for
> the Ruby wrapper classes.
>
> Examples for this are the
> Runtime Library and Gestalt Items, both libraries
> are being developed with Jeszra and documented through
> it:
> http://gestaltitems.sourceforge.net/ruby/index.html
>
> The latest Runtime Library and Gestalt Items are
> included in the jeszra01.tgz download package.
> Jeszra also contains a new composite library (Jeszra Library),
> for which Ruby wrapper classes are available:
> rubyJeszra01.tgz.
>
> http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/jeszra/Jeszra%200.1/jeszra01.tgz
> http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/jeszra/Jeszra%200.1/rubyJeszra01.tgz
>
> Jeszra Overview:
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Jeszra features a modular builder, with several
> backends. Extending Jeszra's capabilities with
> another backend such as for FFI is considerable simple.
>
>
> Vector Graphics:
> TkZinc (3.3), TkPath (0.2 and 0.3), Tk Canvas (8.4 and 8.5)
> are being used for 2D-vector graphics.
>
> 2D vector graphics include transformations,
> gradients, transparency, images, embedded
> windows ...
>
> Splines for TkZinc and TkPath (requires the tclsplines package).
>
> The GUI-part:
> Covers every Tcl/Tk window type featuring a configure command.
> 15+ geometry managers are supported.
>
> Jeszra also generates and edits contents for
> selected windows types:
> Tk Listbox, Hugelist, Rtl_mlistbox, Tk Text ...
>
> Jeszra generates:
> Tcl/Tk,
> Ruby, Lisp and Python wrapper classes for the designed composites.
> DocBook manual pages for the generated
> Tcl, Ruby, Lisp and Python code.
>
> Emacs Skeletons,
> Xcode textmacros for the Xcode Tcl-Mode
>
> Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG),
> Generating SVG requires the tdom and Img packages.
> SVG can be generated for TkZinc, TkPath, Tk Canvas,
> Tk Listbox ...
> Screen shots (Img) are inserted for some
> windows, such as for Tile.
>
> Jeszra imports SVG into Tcl/Tk,
> TkPath 0.2 or 0.3, tdom and Img are required.
>
> Jeszra features an usual flexible User
> Interface, which allows for custom palettes,
> importing and exporting of palettes, a custom
> tools menu and a script recorder.
>
> The Jeszra website is currently under construction,
> but the Jeszra book is online:
> http://jeszra.sourceforge.net/jeszra/
>
> All elements of Jeszra's User Interface are
> composite windows themselves and can be incorporated into
> other Tcl/Tk, Ruby-Tk, Tkinter, Ltk applications.
> The manual pages for Tcl are online at:
> http://jeszra.sourceforge.net/pages/


Awesome!

BTW, the manual pages look beautiful. How did you generate them?