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I just joined this list, have info to share, and some questions. As background, I happen to be a blind person who uses a screen reader utility to operate the computer. I use the keyboard rather than mouse for input and the screen reader, called JAWS, provides output in synthetic speech. This generally works well for standard or common controls of Windows, which WxWidgets wraps (since they are

Hello I''m pleased to say that wxruby2-preview 0.0.38 is now available on Rubyforge and via gems. We''re offering source and binaries for Windows, OS X and Linux. == Install gem install wxruby2-preview https://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=35 == What''s New * HtmlWindow and HtmlEasyPrinting, plus related classes * HelpController and HtmlHelpController for displaying

I''m happy to announce that wxRuby 1.9.2 is now available from Rubyforge. As usual we''ve got source and binary gems for Win32, OS X and Linux: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=35 or gem install wxruby == WHAT''S NEW == This release has a mix of new syntax features, new classes, and lots of minor fixes and additions * New shorter syntax for event handlers * New

WxRuby1 only defines the constant for RichEdit 1.0. From reading MSDN, features of the 2.0 or 3.0 version of this control are superior. I found the constant that enables use of the later version in the style parameter of the constructor: TE_RICH2 = 32768 I think RichEdit2 or 3 is automatically used depending on what is available in the Windows installation. Hope this tip helps others. Jamal

One noteworthy aspect of using this style with a multi-line edit is that the problem of incompatible line endings between the edit buffer and the string it returns seems to go away. In other words, under Windows, one can manipulate a string representation of the edit buffer without the index positions being off because of a carriage return/line feed in one case and only a line feed in another.