From: Arndt Roger Schneider <arndt.roger@...>
Date: 2009-12-11T18:58:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Design tool Jeszra 0.1 for Ruby Tk

hemant schrieb:

>On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Arndt Roger Schneider
><arndt.roger@web.de> wrote:
>  
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>>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:
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>>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?
>
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Jeszra generates docbook refentry documents from the source code
+separate docbook documents +svg.

The used docbook fragments are distributed with Jeszra
--inside the docbook sub-directory.

The svgs are also generated with Jeszra.

BTW: The ruby wrapper classes also
support rdoc.

-roger