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
