samples/swing.rb samples/windows_forms.rb @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ -Magic is an IronRuby gem making it easier to develop Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight UI with IronRuby. +Magic is a gem making it easier to develop UI: +- Windows Forms, WPF/Silverlight with IronRuby, +- Swing with JRuby h1. USAGE -Here are quick starters: +Here are quick starters (some of these are under samples/): h2. Windows Forms - form = Magic.build do @menu = main_menu do menu_item("&File") do @@ -63,6 +64,28 @@ You'll need to run "rake compress" to create magic-compressed.rb, which gathers It makes it easy to create XAML-free applications, or to reduce the amount of XAML to be created. +h2. Swing + +Preliminary support for Swing has just been added. Here's an example: + + import 'javax.swing.JFrame' + import 'javax.swing.JButton' + + frame = Magic.build do + JFrame do + title 'Hello!' + size 400,500 + JButton('Press me') do |b| + b.addActionListener do + b.setText 'Pressed!' + end + end + end + end + + frame.set_default_close_operation(JFrame::EXIT_ON_CLOSE) + frame.show + h1. UNDER THE COVER A few points (see spec/magic_spec.rb for details): @@ -95,24 +118,10 @@ to see all the (m)specs running. Note that I currently use a few nasty mocks (see mocks.rb) that I'll need to clean-up. -h1. PLANNED FEATURES AND STUFF - -Wildo: - -* support flag enums as an array of symbol -* support delegate definition inside the block (vs. as param) -* ensure event handlers can be registered from inside the block (vs. as param) -* create a website (useful resources: "here":http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/12/21/migrating-project-websites-to-github-pages-with-sake-tasks-new-websites-with-jekyll_generator/ and "here":http://github.com/blog/272-github-pages) - -Maydo: - -* allow to always assume Magic.build { } is called (method_missing patch on self) -* convert :margin => 30 to :margin => thickness(30) - needs reflection - -h1. IDEAS +h1. TODO -* use to generate graphs with QuickGraph -* use outside IronRuby (the coupling to IronRuby is quite isolated) +* remove obsolete .Net flagged enum support (IronRuby now supports X | Y) +* split the core into toolkit-specific builders h1. COPYRIGHT README.textile samples/swing/hello_world.rb 36d54a42fa722e85702755dd39d21b3867f26e0c Thibaut Barrère thibaut.barrere@gmail.com http://github.com/thbar/magic/commit/565c99a8443c929a58d401a6110d488833a87760 565c99a8443c929a58d401a6110d488833a87760 2009-07-04T15:17:59-07:00 2009-07-04T15:17:59-07:00 Documentation fixes e3a0b3a97ef452de649474f635b55969e075a886 Thibaut Barrère thibaut.barrere@gmail.com