Hi.
First of all, thank you for your hard work - wxRuby (with wxSugar) is a
wonderful tool! I have been playing with it on and off for a year or so
for
toy projects and really like it!
I need to play mediafiles (mostly mp3s) from within an application. In
wxwidgets (the c++) I can use wxMediaCtrl. As I understand it this class
is
not implemented in wxRuby - right?
Is there a reason for this - is there technical problems implementing
it? I
have read about the policy to only wrap GUI functionality and not
classes
already present in ruby. Thing is, I haven’t found any other way to play
media files from within ruby (cross platform and especially on windows).
Or
is it just that nobody have had any need for it yet?
Until now I have only used the binary releases of wxruby, but will try
to
set up a build environment to try to wrap it myself. Should MSVC 2005,
latest swig, wxMSW-2.8.6 and ruby 1.8.6 be compatible with the one-click
installer? If I do succeed - don’t hold your breath - are you interested
in
patches?
Thanks,
Albin Holmgren
Hi Albin
Albin Holmgren wrote:
First of all, thank you for your hard work - wxRuby (with wxSugar) is
a wonderful tool! I have been playing with it on and off for a year or
so for toy projects and really like it!
Thanks, that’s kind of you to say so.
I need to play mediafiles (mostly mp3s) from within an application. In
wxwidgets (the c++) I can use wxMediaCtrl. As I understand it this
class is not implemented in wxRuby - right?
Yep.
Is there a reason for this - is there technical problems implementing it?
Yes; there’s no other objections to adding it. I last tried this class
quite a while ago, but didn’t get any joy. I don’t remember the specific
error, but basically it was because the underlying wxWidgets C++
implementation is a lot more complex (with abstract classes etc) than
the public-facing API.
Until now I have only used the binary releases of wxruby, but will try
to set up a build environment to try to wrap it myself. Should MSVC
2005, latest swig, wxMSW-2.8.6 and ruby 1.8.6 be compatible with the
one-click installer? If I do succeed - don’t hold your breath - are
you interested in patches?
That all sounds OK - I think that’s the compiler I use for debugging on
Windows though Sean may use VC6 which is the “official” binary
compatible for the one-click installer.
I’d be really pleased to see this class added; if you want any help feel
free to ask on the -dev mailing list.
alex
Until now I have only used the binary releases of wxruby, but will try
to set up a build environment to try to wrap it myself. Should MSVC
2005, latest swig, wxMSW-2.8.6 and ruby 1.8.6 be compatible with the
one-click installer? If I do succeed - don’t hold your breath - are
you interested in patches?
That all sounds OK - I think that’s the compiler I use for debugging on
Windows though Sean may use VC6 which is the “official” binary
compatible for the one-click installer.
Actually I use Visual Studio .Net 2003 and did not even know the
“official” compiler for the one-click was VC6 until very recently
(last week actually). On my build VM for windows I run the following:
- MS Windows XP Pro sp2
- MS Visual Studio .Net 2003
- Ruby 1.8.4 One-click installer version 184-16
- Swig 1.3.31
- wxWidgets 2.8.6
I have had problems compiling with this compiler with newer one-click
installers so I am sticking with this one. The resulting gem works
fine on later installer builds.
BTW if anyone has a copy of VC6 they want to donate for building gems
I would gladly take such a donation, I would feel a bit more
comfortable using it to build the gems.
Sean