From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2002-06-13T01:02:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for jMax


On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, david casal wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > > Just a note that I wrote a jMax object using the Ruby language.
> > > It works.
> > > This functionality will be included in GridFlow 0.6.0.
> > Can you say more about this? Does it mean you embedded an Ruby interpreter
> > within JMax, so one can write objects for jMax in a similar way to
> > Python/Scheme for PD?
> 
> 
> this is my emulation of the "for" object:
> 
> 

oh, and for specifics of installation: you need libruby.so, and it will be
loaded by libgridflow.so which is a jMax plugin. My code translates jMax
atoms to Ruby objects and back, and ties GridFlow::FObject to a
fts_object_t. It scans for inlet-methods by name and exports them to jMax.

however, i could not make any kind of Ruby threading to work with jMax,
which is why I couldn't get Ruby/Tk to not crash. note that jMax has its
own event-loop, and afaik, Tk's event-loop can not be subordinated to
jMax's, so I'd have to use threads.

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