RE: [Wxruby-dev] Progress report

[Curt Hibbs]

This is great Kevin! Hopefully, I'll have some time to take a look at this
later this evening.

Curt

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Kevin
> Smith
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 6:34 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Wxruby-dev] Progress report
>
>
> I thought everyone might appreciate a status report after my long
> weekend working on wxRuby.
>
> First, I want to thank Park again for his great work. Really, most of
> what I am doing is refactoring the existing code to make it easier to
> enhance and maintain, and to avoid possible typo errors. I have been
> pleased that the basic functionality that he put in has worked quite
> well. There are minor memory leaks and other glitches, but it seems
> quite solid to me.
>
> As far as I know, the code should work fine on any OS supported by Ruby
> and wxWindows. However, I would recommend that nobody create large apps
> yet, because almost all of the method names will be changing. Hopefully
> that will happen within a week or two.
>
> So far, I have concentrated on the WxFrame class. I have created a
> template file (frame.t) which can generate frame.h and frame.cpp. I have
> checked in the template processor (wxpp.rb), but it is not yet
> integrated into the Makefile. So when you do a checkout right now, you
> will get the "prebuilt" frame.h and frame.cpp and the existing Makefile
> will work fine.
>
> I'm happy that frame.t is only 69 lines long, but it gets expanded into
> 47 lines of frame.h and 414 lines of frame.cpp. That's the level of code
> reduction that I was hoping to achieve. We do not yet support all the
> WxFrame methods, but supporting each additional "normal" method only
> adds one line to the .t file.
>
> I regularly test a couple of the sample apps (in the samples/
> directory), but there is a chance that I may have broken something. If
> you find anything that worked with Park's code but fails now, please let
> me know and I'll fix it right away.
>
> Next, I plan to slowly convert the other classes to use this same
> template approach. I'll probably do WxWindow next, and then maybe the
> menus.
>
> Feedback and questions are always welcome.
>
> Kevin
>
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