# : Ruby/FLTK 0.9.6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 9, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-fltk-0-9-6/81512 "2007-01-09T15:45:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-fltk-0-9-6/81512/1 "2007-01-09T15:45:48Z")
Ruby/FLTK 0.9.6 , 2007-01-09 [http://ruby-fltk.sourceforge.net/](http://ruby-fltk.sourceforge.net/) “Graphical functions of FLTK for make benefit glorious language of Ruby” What is this?: Ruby/FLTK is a Ruby binding for the FLTK (Fast, Light Toolkit) GUI library. Headlines!: - Having languished somewhat in late 2006, Ruby/FLTK returns with a fat ChangeLog in 2007. - A new class FLTK::Spinner (if your FLTK version is \>= 1.1.7). - All of FLTK’s enumeration values and constant macros are bound to Ruby constants (with a few justifiable exceptions). - Several new FLTK class methods (see ChangeLog). - Convenience I: if FLTK.color receives a block it yields and then restores the original color. - Convenience II: you can invoke #{rectf,rect,push\_clip,pop\_clip} on widget objects and the boundary of the widget will be used as the rectangle. - FLTK.{choice,input,password} sprintf their arguments in the same way as their counterparts in FLTK (NB: FLTK.{message,alert,ask} already did this). - New non-sprintf-ing methods FLTK.{message0,alert0,ask0,choice0,input0,password0} (NB: you should switch to these methods if you did not realise that their cousins call sprintf, as it will fix subtle bugs that appear when the argument contains a’%’ ). - Big cleanup of tests and sample scripts, plus a few additions. Details are in the Release Notes and the ChangeLog. The focus for version 0.9.7 will be: - Push towards full coverage of FLTK’s global functions and Fl::\* methods. - Any suggestions? Regards, Jeremy H. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid – On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. – Charles Babbage ---
**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-fltk-0-9-6/81512/2 "2007-01-09T16:12:55Z")
Jeremy H. wrote: > Ruby/FLTK is a Ruby binding for the FLTK (Fast, Light Toolkit) GUI > library. > > Headlines!: > > - Having languished somewhat in late 2006, Ruby/FLTK returns with a > fat ChangeLog in 2007 > [snip] > The focus for version 0.9.7 will be: > - Push towards full coverage of FLTK’s global functions and Fl::\* > methods. > - Any suggestions? On towards 1.0!! 🙂 Seriously, though, I was hoping there was an FLTK Ruby binding – why should Tk, Gtk, Qt and Fox have all the fun? – M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P) [http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/](http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/) If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire. ---
**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-fltk-0-9-6/81512/3 "2007-01-09T16:22:58Z")
On 1/9/07, Jeremy H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > - Convenience I: if FLTK.color receives a block it yields and then > restores the original color. > - Convenience II: you can invoke #{rectf,rect,push\_clip,pop\_clip} on > widget objects and the boundary of the widget will be used as the > rectangle. Very nice touches indeed. martin ---
**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-fltk-0-9-6/81512/4 "2007-01-09T23:10:57Z")
On 2007-01-09, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Jeremy H. wrote: > > > Ruby/FLTK 0.9.6 , 2007-01-09 > > [http://ruby-fltk.sourceforge.net/](http://ruby-fltk.sourceforge.net/) > > > > “Graphical functions of FLTK for make benefit glorious language of Ruby” > > […] > > > > - Any suggestions? > > On towards 1.0!! 🙂 Thanks, but there’s a way to go yet. The core architecture’s all in place but there are lots of FLTK methods not yet wrapped (check Coverage.txt for a summary). > … I was hoping there was an FLTK Ruby binding – why should Tk, > Gtk, Qt and Fox have all the fun? Incidentally, the FLTK developers’ mailing list just announced a beta of Ruby/FLTK2 . Nothing to do with me, though I’m hoping to give it a look (_provided_ I can keep up the momentum of Ruby/FLTK _and_ find some spare development time). It’s at URL:http://rubyforge.org/projects/fltk/. Jeremy