[Ironruby-core] Interacting with a WPF/Winforms application

[Curt Hagenlocher]

Running in a separate thread is what you probably want to do.

There’s an IronPython sample that does something like this for WinForms – it’s called winforms.py and lives in the tutorial directory.  Unfortunately, it looks like it depends on some IronPython-specific functionality in the command line – but it wouldn’t be too hard to add something similar  to IronRuby.

From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 12:01 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: [Ironruby-core] Interacting with a WPF/Winforms application

Hi

Is there a simple way to interact with the GUI of a WPF/Winforms application?
I'll clarify a little what I would like to achieve:

when you start a console session with an environment loaded you could potentially type the following lines in there

>> require 'config/boot'
>> start_wpf_application
>> System::Windows::Application.current.main_window.my_panel.children.add Wpf.build(TextBox, :text => "Very important placeholder text")

That last line would then add a textbox to the panel while the application is running.

I could probably use threading to achieve this or different appdomains maybe.

any thoughts?

Cheers
Ivan
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