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- <title>Chapter&nbsp;9.&nbsp;To-do list</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook v5 XSL Stylesheets V1.72.0"><link rel="start" href="book.html" title="Developing Graphical User Interfaces with FXRuby"><link rel="up" href="pt01.html" title="Part&nbsp;I.&nbsp;The Basics"><link rel="prev" href="events.html" title="Chapter&nbsp;8.&nbsp;FXRuby's Message-Target System"><link rel="next" href="infosources.html" title="Chapter&nbsp;10.&nbsp;Other Sources of Information"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter&nbsp;9.&nbsp;To-do list</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="events.html">Prev</a>&nbsp;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Part&nbsp;I.&nbsp;The Basics</th><td width="20%" align="right">&nbsp;<a accesskey="n" href="infosources.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="todo"></a>Chapter&nbsp;9.&nbsp;To-do list</h2></div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="bullet"><li style="list-style-type: disc"><p>I haven't yet paid much attention to some of the more esoteric
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- issues such as multithreaded applications, or interactions with other
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- popular Ruby extensions. FXRuby seems to cooperate well with Ruby's
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- thread scheduler on all platforms, although threading support for the
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- mswin32 build of Ruby was broken for Ruby versions 1.6.7 and earlier.
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- For best results, use Ruby versions 1.6.8 or later.</p></li><li style="list-style-type: disc"><p>More examples are always good. Instead of (or in addition to)
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- merely cloning the C++ examples from the standard FOX distribution, it
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- would be nice to have original example programs that demonstrate
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- Ruby's special strengths.</p></li><li style="list-style-type: disc"><p>Documentation is of course a big weakness at this point. I am
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- slowly building up a set of "pseudo-sources" with RDoc-style
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- comments that can be used to generate API documentation but this is far
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- from complete (see the <code class="filename">rdoc-sources</code>
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- directory in the standard source distribution).</p></li><li style="list-style-type: disc"><p>Many people have expressed interest in a framework similar to
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- and drag 2-D shapes around, etc. Should be able to implement this kind
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- of thing directly in Ruby code (i.e. no need to write it in C++ first
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- and then "wrap" it).</p></li><li style="list-style-type: disc"><p>There is no native Mac OS X port of FOX, but many people are
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- successfully building and running FOX and FXRuby applications on Mac OS
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- X using Apple's X11 server implementation. For more information,
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- please see the <a xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" href="http://www.fox-toolkit.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Mac_OS_X" target="_top">Mac OS X</a>
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- page at the <a xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" href="http://www.fox-toolkit.net" target="_top">FOX Community Wiki</a>
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- site.</p></li><li style="list-style-type: disc"><p>Need to investigate how well FXRuby-based applications work with
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- <a xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" href="http://exerb.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html" target="_top">exerb</a>,
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- and perhaps add a section to the documentation about how to do this.</p></li><li style="list-style-type: disc"><p>As of this writing, FOX doesn't provide any support for
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- internationalization (I18N) or Unicode text and so FXRuby doesn't
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- either. It is possible that FOX 1.2 will include some I18N support (see
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- time.</p></li><li style="list-style-type: disc"><p>FOX's list-like widgets (such as <code class="classname">FXList</code>)
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