I'm jealous! I can't really use HotCocoa at all because 32-bit support isn't quite there yet (http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/415). :-(
-Matt On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Gary Weaver <gary.wea...@duke.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I wrote a small application in HotCocoa/MacRuby just to get familiar with > it ( http://github.com/garysweaver/hourz ). MacRuby and HotCocoa are > awesome! I did have a few issues during development that I thought I'd share > in case anyone can assist. > > I'm using MacRuby 0.5 and HotCocoa 0.5.1 on OS X 10.6.2, was using TextMate > vs. XCode to develop it. I have some experience with Ruby, but consider me a > newbie to MacRuby, HotCocoa, and Cocoa (and Obj-C for that matter). > > Here is what I ran into: > > * If I take a stringValue from a text field, Marshal.dump it to a file, and > then Marshal.load it, and put it back into the text field, it puts wierd > characters in the end of the value like 'Òÿýÿÿÿ'. I think this might be a > result of the class that I'm Marshalling that contains "include > HotCocoa::Behaviors"? Not sure. I wasn't able to reproduce the issue via > macirb using simple array or array of simple custom class Marshalling to > file and back, but I'm able to reproduce the issue everytime in my app, but > the class is more complicated. > > * I wasn't able to get File.copy to work so I wrote my own method to copy a > file. Could you provide an example that can copy a file in MacRuby using > File.copy or using FileUtils? > > * I wasn't able to set the (HotCocoa) layout_view frame or hidden > properties successfully via calls by a button on_action. I could set them > fine as long as they were called during startup of the application. For > example, I wanted to do the following to hide a layout_view and replace it > with another layout_view and vice versa in the same area of the window, but > these methods only worked if being called during the initial load. I'm > thinking maybe there is some sort of refresh method I need to call? > > def in_add_mode > @edit_view.frame = [0, 0, 0, 0] > @edit_view.hidden = true > @add_view.frame = [0, 0, 0, 40] > @add_view.hidden = false > end > > def in_edit_mode > @add_view.frame = [0, 0, 0, 0] > @add_view.hidden = true > @edit_view.frame = [0, 0, 0, 40] > @edit_view.hidden = false > # ... > end > > * (window).will_miniaturize { exit } works great to keep the app active (in > the dock) after closing the window, but I don't know what to call such that > I could close the window and then click on the icon in the dock it then show > the window. Also when I close it, it doesn't appear to be in the hidden > state, because the dock menu indicates that I can hide the window (but it is > hidden). > > * I couldn't figure out how to access the dock_menu in HotCocoa/MacRuby > (I'm not using XCode or > http://www.echographia.com/blog/2009/02/08/dynamic-dock-menus-in-macruby/would > have helped). I'd like to be able to manage it dynamically in HotCocoa > if possible to be able to choose which Task I'm working on at the moment > without showing the window. It would also be cool to dynamically change the > dock icon when this happens to somehow indicate which task is being worked > on (similar to Thunderbird showing the number of new messages, maybe I could > show a number or some brief text?). > > * I couldn't figure out how to alter the "About" part of the application to > provide the authorship, license, and link to the project, although I know > the version number is specified in config/build.yml. It would also be cool > to have full control over that area and define the window, etc. > > * I wasn't sure what the best practice would be to ensure that the window > could be resized if someone somehow is using larger/smaller fonts, but to > keep it from being resized so much that it is unusable. Maybe the right > thing to do is to just specify a defined size/frame for the window that > cannot be changed? > > * Note that I might also look into storing the task data as xml or json. > I'd rather it be hand-editable if needed. (I assume I could just put the > array into a hash and use to_xml/from_xml or to_json/from_json.) > > Again, thanks so much for all of your work on this. It is really cool to > develop apps for OS X this quickly! (<16 hours total dev time, not including > time to post to GitHub, and a lot of that was research, documentation, > making an icon, etc.) > > Thanks in advance for any assistance! > > Gary > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >
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