Awesome stuff! If you make this into its own github project, I can add it to http://github.com/ironruby/ironruby-contrib as a submodule. That'll force me to keep it updated =)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thibaut Barrère Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] A tiny DSL to build Windows::Forms menus from IronRuby - review wanted After chatting with Ivan, I created some code to build Forms too: form = Magic.build do form(:text => "Hello") do flow_layout_panel(:dock => DockStyle.fill) do button(:text => "Click me!", :click => lambda { MessageBox.Show("Hello") }) button(:text => "Quit", :click => lambda { Application.Exit }) end end end I use method_missing and transform the method name from flow_layout_panel to FlowLayoutPanel class etc. After using these a bit, I'm pretty sure we'll end up with some community project sharing that kind of stuff, at some point. Nb: I hope it's not OT for the core list - or is it time to create a user group ? cheers, -- Thibaut On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Thibaut Barrère <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, I think it looks very nice. It's a shame that you have to resort to direct lambda's since you can't pass two lambda's in, but otherwise it's a nice visual representation of the menu, in code. thanks for the feedback, appreciated! I just realised that I can also use this (without modifying the implementation): item("&PowerBlade").click { MessageBox.Show("Powerblades are amazing...") } instead of item("&PowerBlade", lambda { MessageBox.Show("Powerblades are amazing...") } same effect, slightly more readable though. cheers, and I shall move on to long running operations. -- Thibaut JD From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Thibaut Barrère Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:26 PM To: ironruby-core Subject: [Ironruby-core] A tiny DSL to build Windows::Forms menus from IronRuby - review wanted Hi, I started working on UI bits, both for Ivan book and because my customers are interested (and well - because it's fun, too!). First topic is how to build menus more easily (next one will be long running operations and how to sugar them). I'd be interested to get your opinion on both the DSL syntax (below for quick read or here<http://github.com/thbar/ironruby-labs/blob/66b45fd6f13d2b3c8aa8021ee3f58303a9bb7eae/ui/003_dsl_menu.rb> on github) and the implementation<http://github.com/thbar/ironruby-labs/blob/66b45fd6f13d2b3c8aa8021ee3f58303a9bb7eae/ui/menu_builder.rb>. form.menu = MainMenu.build do item("&File") { item("&New") { item("Spreadsheet") item("Document") } item "&Quit", lambda { Application.Exit } } item("&Tools") { item "&PowerBlade", lambda { MessageBox.Show("Powerblades are amazing...") } item "&Scissors" } end what do you think ? cheers, Thibaut Barrère -- LoGeek [blog] http://evolvingworker.com - tools for a better day [blog] http://blog.logeek.fr - about writing software _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
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