# IronRuby Visual Form Designer (preview) **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [October 31, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-visual-form-designer-preview/118863 "2007-10-31T19:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e19adc/32.png) [@huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/huw)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-visual-form-designer-preview/118863/1 "2007-10-31T19:13:07Z")
I’ve just put online a short walkthrough demo of our form designer for IronRuby. I thought people might be interested to take a look… [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Form-Designer](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Form-Designer) best wishes Huw ---
**Author:** ![huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e19adc/32.png) [@huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/huw)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 7:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-visual-form-designer-preview/118863/2 "2007-11-02T07:08:08Z")
Huw C.: > I’ve just put online a short walkthrough demo of our form designer for > IronRuby. I thought people might be interested to take a look… > > [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Form-Designer](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Form-Designer) Hi Huw, This looks awesome! Can’t wait to try it out. BTW, are you here at RubyConf this weekend? -John ---
**Author:** ![huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e19adc/32.png) [@huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/huw)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-visual-form-designer-preview/118863/3 "2007-11-02T11:20:04Z")
John L. (DLR) wrote: > Huw C.: > > > I’ve just put online a short walkthrough demo of our form designer for > > IronRuby. I thought people might be interested to take a look… > > > > [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Form-Designer](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Form-Designer) > > Hi Huw, > > This looks awesome! Can’t wait to try it out. BTW, are you here at > RubyConf this weekend? I wish! Nope, I shall be sweating over a hot keyboard as usual, I’m afraid. That’s the bad news. The good news is that we are now making good progress with our IronRuby support! If you can just get those delegate/event-handlers sorted out we’d be really happy 🙂 There also are one or two other issues that either you or we need to smooth out (e.g. we are having problems with a few properties such as docking). It’s probably a bit too early to worry about those sorts of details but, a bit later on, perhaps we can get you a beta version and go through any thingss we need to do to smooth off any rough edges? best wishes Huw ---
**Author:** ![huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e19adc/32.png) [@huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/huw)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-visual-form-designer-preview/118863/4 "2007-11-05T22:38:12Z")
Huw C.: > If you can just get those delegate/event-handlers sorted out we’d be > really happy 🙂 There also are one or two other issues that either you > or we need to smooth out (e.g. we are having problems with a few > properties such as docking). It’s probably a bit too early to worry > about those sorts of details but, a bit later on, perhaps we can get > you > a beta version and go through any thingss we need to do to smooth off > any rough edges? Please feel free to send it along. We’ll definitely see what we can do to help make it easier for you to integrate with us. Keep in mind though that the DLR hosting interfaces are still in flux, so it will likely be Jan before we finalize what those look like. Thanks! -John ---
**Author:** ![huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e19adc/32.png) [@huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/huw)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-visual-form-designer-preview/118863/5 "2007-11-12T17:15:15Z")
I’ve just uploaded a short screencast showing our IronRuby form designer in action… [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Designer](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Designer) best wishes Huw ---
**Author:** ![huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e19adc/32.png) [@huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/huw)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-visual-form-designer-preview/118863/6 "2007-11-12T17:22:39Z")
Huw C.: > I’ve just uploaded a short screencast showing our IronRuby form > designer > in action… > > [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Designer](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Designer) Just watched it. Great job! It looks like you’ve got syntax coloring working already. Do you have an ETA for Intellisense support for the native .NET types? Thanks, -John ---
**Author:** ![huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e19adc/32.png) [@huw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/huw)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-visual-form-designer-preview/118863/7 "2007-11-12T17:50:55Z")
John L. (DLR) wrote: > Huw C.: > > > I’ve just uploaded a short screencast showing our IronRuby form > > designer > > in action… > > > > [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Designer](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Designer) > > Just watched it. Great job! > > It looks like you’ve got syntax coloring working already. Do you have an > ETA for Intellisense support for the native .NET types? The syntax coloring, code folding etc is already in place as we have it all for our current Ruby environment. None of this depends on information supplied by the Ruby interpreter, so moving it over to IronRuby was very simple. We’ve been looking at .NET IntelliSense and this will be a _lot_ easier to implement than Ruby IntelliSense was. Naturally we can do Ruby IntelliSense today as we already have Ruby IntelliSense in Ruby In Steel. Once again, none of our Intellisense depends on ruby.exe - we’ve implemented the entire code analysis system ourselves - so it is easy for us to move it into our IronRuby IDE. We think we’ll be able to demo a system that has both .NET and Ruby code completion for IronRuby pretty soon now. Can’t give you an exact date but it’s going to be weeks, not months 😉 best wishes Huw