[MacRuby-devel] is hotcocoa dead ?

[Vincenzo Piombo]

Gary,
 Thanks for the info.
I'm surprised you say there could be size problems in the produced app. Do
you mean that if I write the same app using IB and hotcocoa the last one
would be sensibly larger ? Why ?

Enzo

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Gary Weaver <gary.weaver at duke.edu> wrote:

> Vincenzo,
>
> There was work on HotCocoa at least as recently as Jan 11, 2011, I think.
>
> Here is the github graph of changes:
> https://github.com/richkilmer/hotcocoa/network
>
> As of today (3/24/2011), this is the most recent list of committers (I
> think):
> https://github.com/gmanley/hotcocoa/contributors
>
> dj2 (dan sinclair)
> richkilmer (Richard Kilmer)
> isaac (Isaac Kearse)
> mattetti (Matt Aimonetti)
> jamis (Jamis Buck)
> hellopatrick (Patrick)
> reborg (reborg)
>
> Last change in the wiki was 10 months ago (6/10/2010):
> http://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/HotCocoa?action=history
>
> Unfortunately, I think it is an effort off to the side of the macruby team
> and core developers that hasn't gotten much attention. I know many
> (including myself) would like to see it succeed though. It was a lot of fun
> to work with for the few days that I did, and fun toys that you can create
> cool things with quickly can often do really well. The main problems I think
> have been the lack of attention, lack of development, and the large size of
> the produced application, at least in earlier versions.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> On 3/23/11 5:52 PM, Vincenzo Piombo wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>  I discovered macruby since a few weeks and I'm really enthusiast.
>> I begun playing with it and really like the hotcocoa approach, but it
>> seems stopped since more than a year, is it still maintained ?
>>
>> Anyway, I think I found a bug in the hotcocoa canvas part: the text method
>> draws at a very big size regardless of the chosen font. The problem is that
>> the transformation matrix for the text is not set.
>>
>> Here is the fix if anyone needs it:
>>
>> module HotCocoa::Graphics
>>  class Canvas
>>    def text(txt="A", x=0, y=0)
>>      affine = CGContextGetCTM(@ctx)
>>      CGContextSetTextMatrix (@ctx, affine);
>>      txt = txt.to_s unless txt.kind_of?(String)
>>      if @registration == :center
>>        width = textwidth(txt)
>>        x = x - width / 2
>>        y = y + @fsize / 2
>>      end
>>      CGContextShowTextAtPoint(@ctx, x, y, txt, txt.length)
>>    end
>>  end
>> end
>>
>>
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