Ironruby core - Aug 2008 - Interacting with a WPF/Winforms application

Hi

Is there a simple way to interact with the GUI of a WPF/Winforms
application?
I''ll clarify a little what I would like to achieve:

when you start a console session with an environment loaded you could
potentially type the following lines in there
>> require ''config/boot''
>> start_wpf_application
>> System::Windows::Application.current.main_window.my_panel.children.add
Wpf.build(TextBox, :text => "Very important placeholder text")

That last line would then add a textbox to the panel while the application
is running.

I could probably use threading to achieve this or different appdomains
maybe.

any thoughts?

Cheers
Ivan
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Running in a separate thread is what you probably want to do.

There?s an IronPython sample that does something like this for WinForms ? it?s
called winforms.py and lives in the tutorial directory.  Unfortunately, it looks
like it depends on some IronPython-specific functionality in the command line ?
but it wouldn?t be too hard to add something similar  to IronRuby.

From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at
rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 12:01 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: [Ironruby-core] Interacting with a WPF/Winforms application

Hi

Is there a simple way to interact with the GUI of a WPF/Winforms application?
I''ll clarify a little what I would like to achieve:

when you start a console session with an environment loaded you could
potentially type the following lines in there
>> require ''config/boot''
>> start_wpf_application
>> System::Windows::Application.current.main_window.my_panel.children.add
Wpf.build(TextBox, :text => "Very important placeholder text")
That last line would then add a textbox to the panel while the application is
running.

I could probably use threading to achieve this or different appdomains maybe.

any thoughts?

Cheers
Ivan
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FWIW, the easiest way is to rename the exe to dll,(btw, is there a reason we
can''t require exes?) and then call "Thread.new { Program.main args
}" :)

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Ivan Porto Carrero <ivan at
flanders.co.nz>wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there a simple way to interact with the GUI of a WPF/Winforms
> application?
> I''ll clarify a little what I would like to achieve:
>
> when you start a console session with an environment loaded you could
> potentially type the following lines in there
>
> >> require ''config/boot''
> >> start_wpf_application
> >>
System::Windows::Application.current.main_window.my_panel.children.add
> Wpf.build(TextBox, :text => "Very important placeholder text")
>
> That last line would then add a textbox to the panel while the application
> is running.
>
> I could probably use threading to achieve this or different appdomains
> maybe.
>
> any thoughts?
>
> Cheers
> Ivan
>
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