The Ruby bindings for Clutter 0.8 are now available on RubyForge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rbclutter/
This includes complete bindings for 0.8 including Cogl. Please try them out! If anyone can offer any help for making a Debian package so I don't have to read the friendly manual, I would be grateful. There are some issues to be aware of mentioned in the README which are pretty much the same as the last release: - There's no documentation, however the method names try to follow the same system as the Ruby GTK bindings so you can generally read the Clutter API documentation and guess the Ruby method. See this page for details: http://tinyurl.com/3btpoq - There's no way to implement an interface or override a GObject method in Ruby code yet. So for example, you can create a Ruby object that is a subclass of Clutter::Actor, register it as a new GType and create custom signals, but you can not implement the ClutterContainer interface. - There are bindings for clutter_threads_enter and clutter_threads_leave but you shouldn't need to call these functions if you are just using regular Ruby threads. Ruby does not use native threads so there is no need to lock Clutter. If you do try to grab the Clutter lock in two separate Ruby threads then the process will block forever because Ruby will not be given a chance to switch threads while waiting for clutter_threads_enter to complete. It can however be used in combination with another library that may create native threads. - The effect functions can't take a callback block for when the effect is complete, even though the C API has a parameter for it. I'm hoping Clutter will eventually get a GDestroyNotify parameter for the effect functions which would make this a lot easier. - Clutter::init isn't explictly called for you when you execute 'require "clutter"'. That way you can optionally use your own argument array instead of ARGV. However, there appears to be a problem wrapping clutter-gst before gst_init is called, so if you execute 'require "clutter_gst"' it *will* explicitly call clutter_gst_init. -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
