From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Julian Graham Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.comp.lib.ncurses.general Subject: ANN: libRUIN project development release 0.1.1 Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:12:17 -0500 Message-ID: <2bc5f8210601311312v4ad3f18bo4ca2b8305a77674b@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138741973 30789 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 21:12:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:12:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 31 22:12:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F42nh-0007Sl-4N for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:12:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F42qi-0001wy-K1 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:15:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F42qX-0001vA-9A for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:15:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F42qV-0001tI-DF for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:15:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F42qV-0001t3-1y for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:15:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.162.192] (helo=zproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F42p2-0007Al-O1 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:13:56 -0500 Original-Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v1so1414814nzb for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:12:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=ajNfGubqFgWp1T/v4zQQAciDG6ea9aA45kCf0f0fm3x3ZVKOMhC52xfNf2hHRCo0964afE/E0j4y30HRPG+7Er/3OH6mjytb16laMkpsa0Z36tEPbDd/2fFxq8+TYDPjs0szyTr0hmm79vRKdpKWgpKE5MHlT1KaT/GyOcLSiIg= Original-Received: by 10.36.34.8 with SMTP id h8mr6082916nzh; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:12:17 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.36.252.10 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:12:17 -0800 (PST) Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org, help-ncurses@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:5110 gmane.comp.lib.ncurses.general:1801 Archived-At: Hi everyone, I am pleased to announce that the libRUIN project has made its first formal development release, version 0.1.1. Our project description, from Savannah: libRUIN (Renderer for User Interfaces in Ncurses) is a rendering library for various XML-based user interface markup languages (such as Mozilla XUL), using the Ncurses terminal control library as a rendering target. GNU Guile and the SDOM Scheme module are used as the "glue" that manages user input and event handling. An application programmer passes an XML document (including, potentially, a set of CSS stylesheets) and an Ncurses WINDOW structure, and libRUIN paints the WINDOW according to the markup and CSS; the programmer may subsequently pass Ncurses-style input strings to that WINDOW via libRUIN, and libRUIN will handle the resulting event flows. What this means, in short, is that libRUIN is a little bit like a browser in that it provides rendering for various flavors of XML+CSS, but, more importantly, it's an embeddable native library that you can use to quickly and easily create dynamic Ncurses user interfaces for your application without having to write any UI code (except perhaps a few lines of Scheme). Of particular interest to Scheme programmers and Guile users -- while the exposed API and core of libRUIN is C, the XML parsing, CSS lookups, and DOM event handling (events are scripted in Scheme) are all implemented as Guile Scheme modules (see, respectively, the SSAX/SXML project, SCSS and SDOM). This release is concertedly alpha- or pre-alpha-quality, but includes an example application called 'ruinview' that you can use to check out libRUIN's rendering support for XHTML documents (selections from the W3C's CSS2.1 Test Suite are included in the distribution) and see how easy it is to integrate libRUIN with existing C code. For more information, swing by http://www.nongnu.org/libruin or check out our project page on Savannah, at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/libruin -- you can pick up the release from the downloads section. _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user