Re: [DotGNU]A plan for DotGNU: Rudolf

[David Sugar]

Considering that I use Fox for most of my gui work already, I do like this 
idea very much.  This also seems to be a very clever use of the fox internal 
message passing architecture.

On Wednesday 01 January 2003 09:36, Peter Minten wrote:
> Peter Minten wrote:
> > Inside the application frontend process the DotGNU Translator component
> > watches the pipe to the Butler. When a FOX message in XML comes in it
> > parses it and sends it on to the receiver.
>
> I created an example of the Client Translator (attached), it works with
> XML-RPC instead of XML, but it works for basically every Fox object. To use
> it you will need Fox, FXRuby, xmlrpc4r and the dependencies of those
> things. Fox and FXRuby are linked to on the Fox homepage
> (www.fox-toolkit.org) for the rest you should search the Ruby Application
> Archive (www.ruby-lang.org/raa).
>
> Note that the example has one security bug, it uses eval and thus executes
> Ruby code. I set the $SAFE level at 2 so that files can't be modified, but
> it's still possible to do some tricks.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Peter