wxRuby 1.9.8

Desktop wxRuby
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Hi

Well, there’s a new wxRuby around.

== NEW FEATURES

  • Enable wxRuby to work with Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.0-4
    • As well as not crashing with these recent ruby releases,
      there’s also some binaries for Ruby 1.9
  • Eliminated many bugs, crashers and build problems
    • Includes fix for a nasty crasher in 1.9.7 affecting closed Windows
  • Added the context help set of classes (HelpProvider etc)
    • For example, you can use SimpleHelpProvider to show context
      help for individual widgets just by calling win#help_text=
  • Added GCDC and ClipboardTextEvent classes
    • GCDC permits anti-aliased drawing using the standard DC API
  • Substantial performance improvements
  • Many additions and corrections to docs
  • Builds are now based on wxWidgets-2.8.8
    • This latest stable version of wxWidgets include fixes for
      some bugs reported in wxRuby

== INSTALLATION

Source and binary gems from:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=35&release_id=25320

We’re working on a mswin-32 binary, but for the moment, Windows users
using the One-Click installer Ruby might try installing the mingw32
build. This seems to be compatible; please report any bugs.

== CREDITS

Thanks to everyone who provided patches, bug reports and feedback. This
version includes patches contributed by Cezar Espinola, Chauk-Mean P and
Pascal H…

== NEXT STEPS

Plan is to fix all remaining high-priority bugs and then make the next
release a stable 2.0. All reports and requests are welcome on the
RubyForge tracker; please give them a high priority (4+) if you want
them definitely fixed for the 2.0 release.

cheers
alex

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Hello,

Alex F. [email protected] wrote:

== NEXT STEPS

Plan is to fix all remaining high-priority bugs and then make the next
release a stable 2.0. All reports and requests are welcome on the
RubyForge tracker; please give them a high priority (4+) if you want
them definitely fixed for the 2.0 release.

i would very like the clipboard bug in GTK to get fixed by version 2.0
but i can’t register with the rubyforge site for some reasons (it says
i’m lacking credentials when i login to confirm my email address). can
you please set the priority for this to the mentioned level?

Greetings,
Niklas

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Niklas B. wrote:

i would very like the clipboard bug in GTK to get fixed by version 2.0 but i can’t register with the rubyforge site for some reasons (it says i’m lacking credentials when i login to confirm my email address). can you please set the priority for this to the mentioned level?

Sure, I’d see this as something we should fix for 2.0 - it’s a core
functionality problem that works in wxWidgets. I’ve marked it MUST FIX
for 2.0

cheers
alex

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Hello,

Alex F. [email protected] wrote:

Niklas B. wrote:

i would very like the clipboard bug in GTK to get fixed by version 2.0 but i can’t register with the rubyforge site for some reasons (it says i’m lacking credentials when i login to confirm my email address). can you please set the priority for this to the mentioned level?

Sure, I’d see this as something we should fix for 2.0 - it’s a core
functionality problem that works in wxWidgets. I’ve marked it MUST FIX
for 2.0

thank you very much.

Greetings,
Niklas