Re: [MacRuby-devel] Help with QT syntax

2009-09-07 Thread John Labovitz
On 7 Sep 2009, at 9:45 AM, Martin Hawkins wrote: I've been going through the MyRecorder example in the QTKit Capture Programming Guide (which works fine) but am having problems with the MacRuby syntax for the following: - (void)captureOutput:(QTCaptureFileOutput *)captureOutput didFinishR

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Using the SystemConfiguration framework

2010-07-02 Thread John Labovitz
Depending on what you need to do, you should check out IXSCNotificationManager, an ObjC wrapper around parts of SC. I've used it a few times and it's quite helpful, and obviously an better impedance match to MacRuby code. It's mentioned & linked here: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby promise

2011-11-14 Thread John Labovitz
On 14 Nov 2011, at 8:15 AM, Jean-Denis MUYS wrote: > My vision of speeding up Mac development is basically to finally reach again > what I had almost 20 years ago when I was programming in Macintosh Common > Lisp on the Mac for the Mac: developing within a running application, without > having

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

2012-05-03 Thread John Labovitz
I don't really understand the issue being raised here by many people -- namely, "what would happen to my RubyMotion projects if Laurent decides to move on." If I invest time & energy into writing an app using RubyMotion, I'll still own all my code. Further, that code will (apparently) be written

[MacRuby-devel] A neat little discovery: MacRuby + ImageMagick

2012-12-17 Thread John Labovitz
I've been writing some personal tools for processing photographic images (film scans, if you must know). For most of it, I've been using Ruby 1.9 and the ImageMagick library, which has a very rich toolset of image-manipulation functions that are fairly easy to program using the RMagick gem that

[MacRuby-devel] Pointer to an array of structs?

2013-04-24 Thread John Labovitz
I just spent a couple of days on figuring out how to properly get a pointer to an array of C-structs. I finally figured it out, but it seems like more work than necessary, and I'm wondering what other folks think. I'm using Harfbuzz, a C library, to do some OpenType text shaping & positioning -

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

2013-05-16 Thread John Labovitz
Add me in as another questioner of MacRuby's future. (And thanks for bringing this up -- I'd been meaning to do so myself.) The GC issue is the most obvious, but I've also noticed a distinct lack of updates and general involvement by any of the maintainers. Looking at the already-sparse mailing

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

2013-05-16 Thread John Labovitz
Many of my personal MacRuby projects are somewhat peculiar in that they not only avoid Xcode and Interface builder, they aren't even application bundles. Instead, they're just Ruby files with an executable bit that I run from the command line. Do you know whether this mode of development is sup