wxruby development - Sep 2009 - wxRuby trunk and wxWidgets-2.9 support

Hi Alex,

Thanks for merging the latest changes to the trunk.
I''m wondering if it''s OK to start the support for
wxWidgets-2.9.0 on the trunk.

Cheers.
Chauk-Mean.

Chauk-Mean Proum wrote:
> Thanks for merging the latest changes to the trunk.
> I''m wondering if it''s OK to start the support for
wxWidgets-2.9.0 on the trunk.
Yes of course. It would be great to get going on this before wxWidgets 
3.0 is released (planned for next year).

There''s some SWIG reorganising I''d like us to do, so that:

a) we use the wxWidgets interface/wx/*.h files to provide the class 
descriptions, rather than maintaining our own.
b) we don''t post-process the generated C++ from SWIG.

So our swig/ directory looks something like:

swig/wx/*.i # corresponding files for each interface/*.h file, will be 
compiled
swig/classes/*.i # included from relevant wx/*.i files
swig/typemaps # reorganisation of current typemaps file

The first few are going to be quite hard with tricky SWIG and rake 
stuff, but after that I hope we can bulldoze through the rest re-using 
our existing typemaps and interface code.

I''m very happy if you want to start on this, or I''ll try and
get a
minimal build up and running.

alex

Hi Alex,

2009/9/10 Alex Fenton <alex at pressure.to>:
> Yes of course. It would be great to get going on this before wxWidgets 3.0
> is released (planned for next year).
>
> There''s some SWIG reorganising I''d like us to do, so
that:
...
> The first few are going to be quite hard with tricky SWIG and rake stuff,
> but after that I hope we can bulldoze through the rest re-using our
existing
> typemaps and interface code.
>
> I''m very happy if you want to start on this, or I''ll try
and get a minimal
> build up and running.
Well, I just wanted to make wxRuby builds fine with wxWidgets-2.9.0 first.

Cheers.
Chauk-Mean.

Chauk-Mean Proum wrote:
>> I''m very happy if you want to start on this, or I''ll
try and get a minimal
>> build up and running.
>>     
>
> Well, I just wanted to make wxRuby builds fine with wxWidgets-2.9.0 first.
It might be interesting to try. Work on the typemaps would definitely be 
useful, but any changes to the files in swig/class/include would be lost 
when we move to using Wx''s interface files.

cheers
alex