Re: [MacRuby-devel] The Future of MacRuby

2012-04-08 Thread Colin Thomas-Arnold
tl;dr: I propose getting tutorials and code under one structured collection, and to create classes that wrap Core Data in the same way HotCocoa wraps NSViews. I agree with the sentiments about "setting ourselves apart". How do we do that? Please allow me to pontificate. I apologize for the length.

Re: [MacRuby-devel] RubyMotion: Ruby for iOS

2012-05-03 Thread Colin Thomas-Arnold
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Re: [MacRuby-devel] My new MacRuby Apps are now available in the App Store

2012-10-19 Thread Colin Thomas-Arnold
congratulations! I remember when you first started this project. It's great to see it taken to completion! @colinta colinta.com github.com/colinta On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:22 PM, J Silver wrote: > Hi MacRuby! > > GlobalChat2, client and server, are now available in the Mac App Store > >

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Basic delayed email method

2012-10-20 Thread Colin Thomas-Arnold
A timer would work fine here I think, but in my opinion there is a lot of value in learning GCD - but I also use NSTimers all the time, so whatever floats the boat. But the original code Cliff sent doesn't use a Timer, it assigns a time in the future and checks as often as possible that it is e

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Quartz 2D Graphics problem

2012-10-21 Thread Colin Thomas-Arnold
You can certainly compile a group of stuff as a framework, and add that framework to your project, but I've never tried to just toss in .h/.m files and access them from macruby. Can anyone touch on that? I'm interested to hear what can be done there... AFA translating your code into Obj-C...

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Quartz 2D Graphics problem

2012-10-21 Thread Colin Thomas-Arnold
ps://github.com/Marketcircle/AXElements/tree/master/ext/accessibility/key_coder >> https://github.com/alloy/ObjectiveBacon/tree/master/LanguageBindings/MacRuby/ext >> >> You can then simply "require 'bundle'" the bundle file that is compiled. >> >> &g

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Using Virtus or SmartProperty as outlets?

2012-11-21 Thread Colin Thomas-Arnold
What happens if you use BOTH attr_accessor and attribute - the first for the IB outlet, and the other for validation. Just a thought. On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:08 PM, david kramf wrote: > "Basically, I need to make sure that when I ask for an integer, I get an > integer. And when I want a strin

Re: [MacRuby-devel] OS X10.9 & MacRuby's future...

2013-05-19 Thread Colin Thomas Arnold Gray
Just because RubyMotion is compiled doesn't mean it can't have metaprogramming and reflection abilities. These features are not orthogonal to each other. It is true that most compiled languages DON'T have these features, but objective-c definitely DOES. For some light reading, check out (if you