A change made in Ruby 1.8.5 for cyclic requires led to a problem that caused the Ruby interpreter to emit a large number of warnings (see RubyForge Bug #5633). This problem has been fixed.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.6.16 and FXScintilla version 1.71.

Widgets of some classes (namely FXTopWindow and FXMDIChild) weren't properly sending a SEL_CLOSE message to their message targets (see RubyForge Bug #5498). Thanks to a change in FOX version 1.6.16, this problem has been fixed.

The getControlFor method for the FXComboTableItem class was coded incorrectly (see RubyForge Bug #5906). This has been fixed.

There was a minor typo in the API documentation for the FXTriStateButton class (see RubyForge Bug #5962). This has been fixed.

The each_row and each_column iterator methods for the FXTable class were incorrectly coded (see RubyForge Bug #6036). This has been fixed.

The new class methods for FXColorItem, FXDirItem, FXFileItem, FXFoldingItem, FXHeaderItem, FXIconItem, FXListItem and FXTreeItem were all raising exceptions when a non-nil value was passed in for the last argument (see RubyForge Bug #6197). A similar problem was present for various instance methods in the FXColorList, FXListBox and FXMDIClient classes. These problems have been fixed.

A few problems were discovered for the inputs.rb example program (see RubyForge Bug #6209). These problems have been fixed.

Several instance methods for the FXTable class were not actually present under their documented names (see RubyForge Bug #6211). This has been fixed.

The build script was not compatible with changes made in the recently-released FXScintilla 1.71 (see RubyForge Bug #6313). This has been fixed.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.6.16 and FXScintilla version 1.71.

The expandTree() and collapseTree() methods for the FXFoldingList class were incorrectly identified as expandFolding() and collapseFolding() in the API documentation (see RubyForge Bug #5354). This has been fixed.

The FXDockTitle class was not supported (see RubyForge Bug #5632). This has been fixed.

The API documentation for the FXGLCanvas class claimed it had a shared? method, but it didn't (see RubyForge Bug #5591). Now it does.

The FXGradientBar class was not supported (see RubyForge Bug #5746). This has been fixed.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.6.14 and FXScintilla version 1.67 (from CVS).

The children instance method for the FXWindow class always returned an array of FXWindow instances, even if the actual types should have been instances of subclasses of FXWindow (see RubyForge Bug #4342). This has been fixed.

The dilbert.rb example program was broken due to a change in the Dilbert.com web site structure (see RubyForge Bug #4597). This has been fixed.

The expandTree() and collapseTree() methods for the FXFoldingList class were incorrectly identified as expandFolding() and collapseFolding() in the API documentation (see RubyForge Bug #5354). This has been fixed.

The FXDockTitle class was not supported (see RubyForge Bug #5632). This has been fixed.

The API documentation for the FXGLCanvas class claimed it had a shared? method, but it didn't (see RubyForge Bug #5591). Now it does.

The FXGradientBar class was not supported (see RubyForge Bug #5746). This has been fixed.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.4.34 and FXScintilla version 1.63.

The message data sent along for the SEL_INSERTED, SEL_DELETED and SEL_REPLACED messages from an a FXText widget to its target was not being converted properly (see RubyForge Bug #4666). This has been fixed.

The code related to the localization of application messages in FOX wasn't implemented properly in FXRuby, and as a result, constructing certain dialogs (like the color dialog) could cause a program to crash (see RubyForge Bug #5000). This has been fixed.

The "Stop Spin" button in the gltest.rb example program didn't stop the cubes from spinning after either the "Spin Timer" or "Spin Chore" option was selected (see RubyForge Bug #5001). This was actually a symptom of a larger problem, that FXRuby wasn't properly handling timers and chores. These problems have been fixed.

Setting the current item for an FXComboBox to -1 (to indicate that there's no current item) would cause FXRuby to erroneously raise an IndexError (see RubyForge Bug #5007). This has been fixed.

The documentation for the reparent instance method for the FXWindow class was incorrect (see RubyForge Bug #5035). This has been fixed.

The textedit.rb example program was not up to date with some of the changes for FOX 1.6. This example has been updated.

The new font method for the FXFont class was not documented. This has been fixed.

The dilbert.rb example program has been modified to use the RubyfulSoup HTML library instead of the html-parser library.

As discussed in various forums (see for example this post), the autorequire directive for RubyGems specifications is now deprecated. As a result, this has been removed from the FXRuby gem specification. This change will break any code that was using a statement like:

require_gem 'fxruby'

as the sole means for loading FXRuby. Such programs should instead use:

require 'fox16'

which will work for either gem based or non-gem based installations.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.6.8 and FXScintilla version 1.67 (from CVS).

This is the first release of FXRuby compatible with FOX version 1.6. One of the most signficant changes for FOX 1.6 has been the addition of Unicode support; all FOX widgets and internal string processing routines are now Unicode aware. For a comprehensive overview of the changes made to FOX since version 1.4 (including those made in the FOX 1.5 development series), please refer to the News archives at the FOX web site.

Added the allowSide, disallowSide and allowedSide? methods for the FXDockBar class, as complements to the allowedSides accessor methods (see RubyForge Feature Request #2307).

Added the visible= and visible? accessor methods for the FXWindow class, as complements to the show, hide and shown? methods (see RubyForge Feature Request #3579).

The browser.rb example was making use of a deprecated API (see RubyForge Bug #4325). This has been fixed.

The children instance method for the FXWindow class always returned an array of FXWindow instances, even if the actual types should have been instances of subclasses of FXWindow (see RubyForge Bug #4342). This has been fixed.

The dilbert.rb example program was broken due to a change in the Dilbert.com web site structure (see RubyForge Bug #4597). This has been fixed.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.6.5 and FXScintilla version 1.67 (from CVS).

FXRuby would not compile properly on some x86-64 systems (see RubyForge Bug #3729). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Javier Goizueta for initially reporting this problem, and especially to Tobias Peters for providing a patch.

The FXIconDict widget was accidentally "lost" in the transition between FXRuby versions 1.2 and 1.4 (see RubyForge Bug #4117). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Manfred Usselmann for reporting this problem.

The FXSwitcher widget was not sending the appropriate message data to its message target for the SEL_COMMAND message type (see RubyForge Bug #4157). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Manfred Usselmann for reporting this problem.

The FXSeparator class wasn't implemented properly (see RubyForge Bug #4158). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Gerard Menochet for reporting this problem.

The findItemByData method was implemented incorrectly for the FXComboBox, FXFoldingList, FXIconList, FXList and FXListBox classes (see RubyForge Bug #4172). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Gerard Menochet for reporting this problem.

The FXListBox widget was not sending the appropriate message data to its message target for the SEL_COMMAND message type (see RubyForge Bug #4255). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Gerard Menochet for reporting this problem.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.4.29 and FXScintilla version 1.63.

The FXTextField class was not properly responding to the ID_INSERT_STRING command (see RubyForge Bug #3320). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Uwe Hartl for reporting this problem.

The text and getText methods for the FXMenuCaption class were returning nil instead of the actual value (see RubyForge Bug #3458). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Meinrad Recheis (Henon) for reporting this problem.

The API documentation for the FXMDIChild class erroneously listed SEL_CLOSEALL as one of the message types that an MDI child window might send to its message target (see RubyForge Bug #3508). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Meinrad Recheis (Henon) for reporting this problem.

Calling the selectRange method for class FXTable would cause a fatal error instead of merely raising an IndexError exception (see RubyForge Bug #3615). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Meinrad Recheis (Henon) for reporting this problem.

Due to an error in the SWIG interface files, the FXChoiceBox class was basically unusable (see RubyForge Bug #3676). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Uwe Hartl for reporting this problem.

The API documentation for the FXRealSlider and FXRealSpinner classes erroneously claimed that the message data for the SEL_COMMAND and SEL_CHANGED messages sent by these widgets to their targets were integers (see RubyForge Bug #3749). Along the same lines, the message data for those widgets wasn't being converted correctly (see RubyForge Bug #3750). Both of these errors have been corrected. Thanks to Meinrad Recheis (Henon) for reporting these problems.

The API documentation for the Fox module incorrectly listed the names of the FXSELTYPE and FXSELID methods as SELTYPE and SELID (see RubyForge Bug #3940). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Joel VanderWerf for reporting this problem.

The FXTableItem constructor was supposed to (optionally) accept a reference to an arbitrary Ruby object as its third argument, but this wasn't working properly (see RubyForge Bug #4005). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Mark Volkman for reporting this problem.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.4.29 and FXScintilla version 1.63.

The build instructions for Unix platforms had not been updated recently and as such contained some errors (see RubyForge Bug #3014). These errors have been corrected. Thanks to Dave Burns for reporting this problem.

The extendSelection method for the FXTable class was raising an exception if an out of bounds row or column index was passed in (see RubyForge Bug #3050). This has been changed so that extendSelection instead returns false for out of bounds arguments. Thanks to Leonid Moiseichuk for reporting this problem.

The each_child iterator method for the FXWindow class would fail if the child window was destroyed in the block (see RubyForge Bug #3134). Thanks to Liam Irish for reporting this problem and providing a patch.

The message data for the SEL_REPLACED message sent by the FXTable class to its target was not being handled properly (see RubyForge Bug #3244). There were also problems with the message data for the SEL_SELECTED and SEL_DESELECTED messages. Furthermore, the SEL_REPLACED message was not documented in the RDoc documentation for the FXTable class. All of these problems have been corrected. Thanks to _blackdog for reporting this problem.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.4.29 and FXScintilla version 1.63.

The TOGGLEBUTTON_KEEPSTATE option for the FXToggleButton class was not documented (see RubyForge Bug #2286). This oversight has been corrected. Thanks to Tim Smith for reporting this problem.

The scintilla.rb library file was not up to date with the latest FXScintilla release, and as a result it was missing some methods (see RubyForge Bug #2479). This oversight has been corrected. Thanks to Maxim Kulkin for reporting this problem.

Due to changes in the APIs for timers and chores, the mechanisms for removing chores and timeouts were broken (see RubyForge Bug #2563). This bug has been fixed. Thanks to "moinker" for reporting this problem.

An error in the test setup caused all of the tests for the FXList class to fail (see RubyForge Bug #2564). This bug has been fixed. Thanks to Peter for reporting this problem.

Due to a bug in the test suite runner script, not all test cases were being exercised (see RubyForge Bug #2565). This bug has been fixed.

Calling the getPixel method for the FXImage class when the client-side pixel buffer for the image has already been released would cause a program to crash (see RubyForge Bug #2611). Now, getPixel will raise an exception if it's called after the pixel buffer has been released. The documentation for getPixel has been updated accordingly. Thanks to Gonzalo Garramuno for reporting this problem.

The makePositionVisible method for the FXTable class was raising an exception when passed out-of-bounds values for the row or column index (see RubyForge Bug #2660). This could happen, for example, if you were to click in a table area outside of the regular cells (which indirectly triggers a call to makePositionVisible). This was actually inconsistent with standard FOX behavior, which simply ignores out of bounds values for that method's arguments. This bug has been fixed, and the documentation for makePositionVisible has been updated accordingly. Thanks to Ralf Jonas for reporting this problem.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.4.21 and FXScintilla version 1.63.

Due to a bug in the implementation, the checked? method for the FXCheckButton class always returned false (see RubyForge Bug #1852). This bug has been fixed. Thanks to Meinrad Recheis for reporting this problem.

The API documentation for the FXTable class listed several obsolete attributes (see RubyForge Bug #1928). Those errors have been corrected. Thanks to Pavel Sokolov for reporting these problems.

There were a number of bugs in the textedit.rb example program (see RubyForge Bug #1979), and those bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Claude Marinier for reporting these problems.

The API documentation for the FXTreeList class' new method still showed the number of visible items (nvis) as its second argument (see RubyForge Bug #2171). This problem has been corrected. Thanks to Bill Atkins for reporting this problem.

The API documentation for the FXTopWindow class had a number of errors (see RubyForge Bug #2269). This problem has been corrected.

The API documentation for the FXTreeList class still listed the obsolete reparentItem method (see RubyForge Bug #2270). This problem has been corrected. Thanks to Jacob Hansen for reporting this problem.

Due to a bug in how the SWIG typemaps for the FXlong type were defined, some methods for the FXFileStream class were broken (see RubyForge Bug #2275). This problem has been corrected. Thanks to Gonzalo Garramuno for reporting this problem.

Merged in all of the fixes for FXRuby 1.2.6.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.4.17 and FXScintilla version 1.63.

This is the second release of FXRuby which is compatible with FOX 1.4, and as such should be considered an "unstable" release. For a history of the changes made during the FOX 1.3 and 1.4 development, see the News page at the FOX Web site.

The unit tests (in the tests subdirectory) had not been updated to require the fox14 feature, and were still looking at fox12. This has been corrected.

A number of minor problems were corrected for the Windows build of FXRuby.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.4.17 and FXScintilla version 1.63.

This is the first release of FXRuby which is compatible with FOX 1.4, and as such should be considered an "unstable" release. For a history of the changes made during the FOX 1.3 and 1.4 development, see the News page at the FOX Web site.

Some additional problems related to calling the setTableSize method for an FXTable were discovered (see RubyForge Bug #1597). This problem has been corrected. Thanks to Joel VanderWerf for reporting this problem.

The iconlist.rb example program had a "Sort" pulldown menu filled with a number of commands that didn't really do anything, including sorting the items (see RubyForge Bug #1654). This pulldown menu has been removed from that example.

The API documentation for the FXDC class erroneously referred to the font attribute as textFont (see RubyForge Bug #1667). This problem has been corrected. Thanks to Meinrad Recheis for reporting this problem.

The checked?, unchecked? and maybe? methods for the FXMenuCheck class were missing (see RubyForge Bug #1677). This problem has been corrected. Thanks to Oliver Smith for reporting this problem.

The API documentation for the FXScrollArea class incorrectly spelled the names of the horizontalScrollBar and verticalScrollBar methods as horizontalScrollbar and verticalScrollbar (see RubyForge Bug #1678). The documentation has been corrected. Thanks to Jannis Pohlmann for reporting this mistake.

Some code in the groupbox.rb example program was calling the getRootWindow method, but that method has been renamed to getRoot (see RubyForge Bug #1692). This problem has been corrected. Thanks to Jaroslav Stika for reporting this problem.

The hasChar? method for the FXFont class was spelled without a trailing question mark, but it seems more Ruby-like that it should, so we've added an alias for that (see RubyForge Bug #1714). This method also now accepts a string of size 1 (i.e. a single character) as its input, as an alternative to an ordinal value. Thanks to Meinrad Recheis for these suggestions.

The API documentation for the FXImage class mistakenly listed IMAGE_ALPHA as a valid image rendering hint, but this flag is no longer needed since FOX images now always contain an alpha channel (see RubyForge Bug #1715). The documentation has been corrected. Thanks to Meinrad Recheis for reporting this mistake.

Due to an error in the SWIG interface files, the data method for the FXSettings class was not being wrapped properly. As a result, this method was unavailable and in turn led to other dependent methods (like each_section) to be unavailable as well (see RubyForge Bug #1771). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Jannis Pohlmann for reporting this problem.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.2.16 and FXScintilla version 1.62.

The change made for FXRuby version 1.2.4 regarding garbage collection for table items corrected only one of the problems described in RubyForge Bug #1445; There was still a problem related to the "destructive" effects of the setTableSize method for the FXTable class. This problem has now been corrected as well. Thanks to David Peoples, Jamey Cribbs and Joel VanderWerf for their assistance in helping me to track down this problem.

The extractText and overlayText methods for the FXTable class were implemented incorrectly and weren't listed in the API documentation. These problems have been corrected.

The checks for out-of-bounds indices in the getColumnX, setColumnX, getRowY, setRowY and updateRange methods for the FXTable class were incorrect. These have been fixed.

The setTableSize method for the FXTable class now raises ArgError if either the number of rows or columns passed in as arguments is less than zero.

A typo in one of the source files was causing the build to fail when compiled against Ruby versions 1.8.1 or earlier (see RubyForge Bug #1551). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Alex McGuire for reporting this problem.

The selectItem method for the FXTable class was removed in FOX 1.2, so we've added a convenience method for this that just calls the selectRange method under the hood (see RubyForge Bug #1562). Thanks to Joel VanderWerf for this suggestion.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.2.13 and FXScintilla version 1.62.

Due to a change in some of the internal Ruby C APIs, a compile-time error for FXRuby was introduced in some of the Ruby 1.8.2 preview releases (see RubyForge Bug #1039). One should not see any compile-time errors when compiling FXRuby (versions 1.2.3 or later) against the Ruby 1.8.2 final release, but I've neverthless made a change to how those internal APIs are used, to avoid any potential problems. Thanks to the many users who pointed out this problem.

Joel VanderWerf suggested some enhancements to the image.rb example program in order to improve its startup time (see RubyForge Bug #1281). Those changes have been incorporated. Thanks to Joel for this suggestion.

One change for the FXImage class between FOX versions 1.0 and 1.2 is the nature of the pixel buffer that's passed to the FXImage constructor. Previously, this pixel buffer was expected to be a string of bytes; now it's expected to be an array of FXColor values. This modification was not implemented correctly for FXRuby versions 1.2.3 and earlier (see RubyForge Bug #1427). This bug has been corrected, and the example program (image.rb) and test cases have been updated as well. Thanks to Oliver Smith and others for reporting this problem.

A couple of different problems, reported by Patrick Fernie and David Peoples, exposed a flaw in how FXRuby manages the links between FOX objects and their Ruby peers when the FOX objects are destroyed (see RubyForge Bug #1445). Without going into all the gory details, let's just say that since we have no explicit control over when Ruby's garbage collector decides to "collect" those Ruby peers that point to C++ objects that have been destroyed, we need to take steps to neutralize those Ruby peer objects so that they can't cause your application to crash in the meantime; I've implemented a fix to take care of this situation. Thanks to Patrick and David for reporting these problems.

The API documentation for FXRuby 1.2 still contained references to the old "spellings" of the fxparseAccel and fxparseHotKey method names, which were all lowercase (i.e. fxparseaccel and fxparsehotkey). (see RubyForge Bug #1470). These errors have been corrected.

Added the FXScrollArea#scrollCorner method, which returns a reference to the scroll corner for any window derived from FXScrollArea (see RubyForge Feature Request #1226). Thanks to Brian Sheehan for this suggestion.

Added the FXMemoryBuffer#to_a method, which is just an alias for the data accessor method that returns a copy of the data buffer as an array (see RubyForge Feature Request #1295). Thanks to Meinrad Recheis for this suggestion.

Added the appendRows and appendColumns methods to the FXTable class (see RubyForge Feature Request #1295). Thanks to Brett Hallett for this suggestion.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.2.13 and FXScintilla version 1.62.

Since group boxes containing radio buttons no longer enforce the radio behavior of radio buttons (i.e. keeping only one radio button selected at a time), some of the example programs were no longer working as desired (see RubyForge Bug #751 and RubyForge Bug #1280). This problem has been corrected. Thanks to Yuri Leikind and Barry DeZonia for reporting this problem.

Bob Sidebotham reported a little typo in the table.rb example program (see RubyForge Bug #990). This has been corrected.

The API documentation for FXList did not reflect the changes for FOX 1.2; the retrieveItem() has been renamed to getItem() and insertItem() has been renamed to setItem() (see RubyForge Bug #1037 and RubyForge Bug #1257). This has been corrected. Thanks to Remy Drouilhet and Stephan Kamper for reporting this problem.

The Windows installer was missing some of the documentation files (see RubyForge Bug #1139). This has been corrected. Thanks to Curt Hibbs and Mark Smith for reporting this problem.

The browser.rb example program was broken (see RubyForge Bug #1146). This has been corrected. Thanks to Stefan Lang for reporting this problem.

The attribute setter for FXHeaderItem#justification was defined incorrectly (see RubyForge Bug #1276). This has been corrected. Thanks to Joel VanderWerf for reporting this problem (and providing a patch to fix it).

The filenames alias for the FXFileDialog#getFilenames() instance method was missing (see RubyForge Bug #1277). This error has been corrected. Thanks to Barry DeZonia for reporting this problem.

The API documentation for the FXFileDialog class methods getOpenFilenames(), getOpenDirectory(), getOpenFilename() and getSaveFilename() was extremely inadequate (see RubyForge Bug #1279). This documentation has been improved. Thanks to Barry DeZonia for reporting this problem.

Brett Hallett contributed a Ruby port of the "ratio" example program from the regular FOX distribution, for demonstrating the use of the new FXSpring layout manager (see RubyForge Bug #1282). Many thanks to Brett for this addition!

Joel VanderWerf contributed code to simplify how programs interact with modal and non-modal dialog boxes (see RubyForge Bug #1283). See the API documentation for the new FXDialogBox#execute_modal and FXDialogBox#execute_nonmodal methods for examples of their use.

The attribute setters for FXRealSpinner#selBackColor and FXSpinner#selBackColor were defined incorrectly (see RubyForge Bug #1297). These have been corrected. Thanks to Meinrad Recheis for reporting this problem.

The tooltipPause attribute reader for the FXApp class was missing (see RubyForge Patch #1306). Thanks to Joel VanderWerf for reporting this omission and providing a patch to fix it.

The API documentation for the FXToolBarTab class was missing (see RubyForge Bug #1322). Thanks to Joel VanderWerf for reporting this omission.

The attribute accessors for FXText#visibleRows and FXText#visibleColumns were defined and documented incorrectly (see RubyForge Bug #1325). These have been corrected. Thanks to Karl El-Koura for reporting this problem.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.2.13 and FXScintilla version 1.62.

In order to avoid versioning problems when dealing with a mix of applications based on either FXRuby 1.0 or 1.2, the feature name for FXRuby has been changed from "fox" to "fox12". For most application developers, this means that you will need to modify the source code for applications targeted at FXRuby 1.2 to begin with the line

require 'fox12'

Note that no changes should be required for legacy applications targeted at FXRuby 1.0.

Made a number of updates to the documentation, to reflect API changes for FXRuby 1.2.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.2.9 and FXScintilla version 1.61.

This is the second "alpha" release of FXRuby 1.2. This release should be compatible with any FOX library version 1.2; it is not compatible with any previous FOX library versions. As this is an alpha release, users should expect a certain amount of instability, bugs, etc.

For this release, all of the FOX 1.2 classes are available with the exception of the FXBitmapView class. There is a small problem with how the FXBitmapView class is declared in the FOX 1.2 header files, and I'm trying to decide how best to resolve that problem. The goal is to have this problem resolved by the next alpha release of FXRuby.

For this release, all of the RDoc-based online documentation has been brought up to date with the new APIs.

Portions of the FXRuby User's Guide were still out of date with respect to the new APIs (see SourceForge Bug #988623). This has been fixed.

The mditest.rb example program was not up to date with the new APIs. This has been fixed.

The glviewer.rb example program was not up to date with the new APIs (see SourceForge Bug #986479). This has been fixed. Thanks to Remy Drouilhet for reporting this problem and suggesting the fixes.

The FXGLGroup#bounds method was defined incorrectly (see SourceForge Bug #986476). This has been fixed. Thanks to Remy Drouilhet for reporting this problem and suggesting the fix.

The scintilla-test.rb example program was not up to date with the new APIs (see SourceForge Bug #986172). This has been fixed. Thanks to Peter Watkins for reporting this problem and submitting a corrected version of the program.

There was a small typo in the table.rb example program (see SourceForge Bug #988152). This has been fixed. Thanks to Jamey Cribbs for reporting this problem and suggesting the fix.

Due to an oversight on my part, one of the overloaded constructors for the FXRegion class wasn't wrapped properly (see SourceForge Bug #986181). This has been fixed. Thanks to Bil Bas for reporting this problem.

Removed some obsolete aliases for the old leading and trailing rows and columns for the FXTable class (see SourceForge Bug #988038). Thanks to Yuri Leikind for reporting this problem.

Added FXTable instance methods horizontalGridShown=() and verticalGridShown=() to complement the already available horizontalGridShown? and verticalGridShown? methods.

The binary gem for the 1.2a1 release on Windows didn't have PNG or JPEG image support built-in (see SourceForge Bug #986180). This has been fixed. Thanks to Bil Bas for reporting this problem.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.2.7 and FXScintilla version 1.61.

This is the first "alpha" release of FXRuby 1.2. This release should be compatible with any FOX library version 1.2; it is not compatible with any previous FOX library versions. As this is an alpha release, users should expect a certain amount of instability, bugs, etc.

The intent of this first alpha release is twofold. The primary intent is allow application developers who have current projects based on FXRuby 1.0 to begin the process of updating their applications for compatibility with FXRuby 1.2. For this release, all of the classes that existed in FXRuby 1.0 have been updated for compatibility with FOX 1.2, and so developers should at least be able to begin to "port" their applications forward now. Note that there have been a number of changes for FOX 1.2 and FXRuby 1.2, both in terms of API changes and less obvious "behavioral" changes. For a detailed summary of these changes, please see "What's New in FOX 1.2" (also available as a PDF). Note that few, if any, of the new classes introduced in FOX 1.2 are available in this first alpha release of FXRuby 1.2. Support for those new classes should come along quickly in subsequent alpha releases of FXRuby 1.2.

The secondary intent of this first alpha release is to introduce the new RubyGems-based packaging of FXRuby and to begin to work out the inevitable kinks in that system.

The binary gem for Windows was built with FOX version 1.2.4 and FXScintilla version 1.57.