Ironruby core - Oct 2007 - IronRuby Visual Form Designer (preview)

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

best wishes
Huw
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Huw Collingbourne:
>
> 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
>
Hi Huw,

This looks awesome! Can''t wait to try it out. BTW, are you here at
RubyConf this weekend?

-John

John Lam (DLR) wrote:
> Huw Collingbourne:
>>
>> 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
>>
> 
> 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
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Huw Collingbourne:

> 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

I''ve just uploaded a short screencast showing our IronRuby form
designer
in action...

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Designer

best wishes
Huw
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Huw Collingbourne:
> I''ve just uploaded a short screencast showing our IronRuby form
> designer
> in action...
>
> 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

John Lam (DLR) wrote:
> Huw Collingbourne:
> 
>> I''ve just uploaded a short screencast showing our IronRuby
form
>> designer
>> in action...
>>
>> 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
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