Using Vruby instead of VB?

ruby-talk
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Inspired by Steve’s presentation at RubyConf-2003, (
thanks to zenspider, see:

Steve Tuckner: Ruby World: (Not) Implemented
www.zenspider.com /dl /rubyconf2003 /RubyNotImplemented.tar.gz
)

I am looking at the possibility of using Vruby/Swin instead of VisualBasic
to develop a small (commercial) application on Windows. This application has
to:

  1. Have native (Windows) look and feel
  2. Interface with MS Access (possibly with MS SQL Server2K in future)
  3. Print reports in landscape and portrait mode
  4. Run only on one machine (no networking etc)

With Steve Tuckner, Dan Berger, Park Heesob and many other Win / Ruby
experts on my side, I feel like taking the risk :wink:

What do Rubyists have to say ? Any gotchas I need to be aware of ?

– shanko

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From: Shashank Date [mailto:sdate@everestkc.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 2:37 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Using Vruby instead of VB ?

Inspired by Steve’s presentation at RubyConf-2003, (
thanks to zenspider, see:

Steve Tuckner: Ruby World: (Not) Implemented
www.zenspider.com /dl /rubyconf2003 /RubyNotImplemented.tar.gz
)

I am looking at the possibility of using Vruby/Swin instead of
VisualBasic
to develop a small (commercial) application on Windows. This
application
has
to:

  1. Have native (Windows) look and feel

VRuby/Swin

  1. Interface with MS Access (possibly with MS SQL Server2K in future)

DBI/ODBC

  1. Print reports in landscape and portrait mode

Chad Folwer has covered that with his link to ruby-talk

  1. Run only on one machine (no networking etc)

Simple

With Steve Tuckner, Dan Berger, Park Heesob and many other Win / Ruby
experts on my side, I feel like taking the risk :wink:

What do Rubyists have to say ? Any gotchas I need to be aware of ?

– shanko

The main gotcha you have to worry about is the ruby thread suck up all the
time issue.

I will try to get a version of VRTools available soon so that you can use
it.

Steve Tuckner

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“Steve Tuckner” STUCKNER@MULTITECH.COM wrote in message

The main gotcha you have to worry about is the ruby thread suck up all the
time issue.

I remember you mentioning about this during your presentation, but I did not
undertsand it fully then.
I also read your explanation in ruby-talk #85998 (to which David Garamond
correctly replied in
ruby-talk # 86070). I do not see any evidence of this when I run a small
test application say like this:

···

#-----------------------------------------

Using vruby-031110

Using vrswin-030906

require ‘vr/vruby’
require ‘vr/vrcontrol’

class MyForm <VRForm
def construct
self.caption=“Hello World”
self.move(300,200,250,200)
addControl(VRButton,“btn1”,“&Exit”,80,50,80,40)
end

def btn1_clicked
messageBox “Button Pushed”
exit
end
end

VRLocalScreen.showForm(MyForm)
VRLocalScreen.messageloop
#-----------------------------------------

Evidently I am missing something (or it could be that the author fixed it in
the recent version).

I will try to get a version of VRTools available soon so that you can use
it.

That would be awesome ! Looking forward …

Steve Tuckner

Thanks Steve.
– shanko