AndyObtiva / glimmer

Copyright (c) 2008 Annas Al Maleh.
All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html

Contributors:
   Annas Al Maleh - initial API and implementation

Glimmer - a JRuby DSL that enables easy and efficient authoring of user-interfaces 
using the robust platform-independent Eclipse SWT library. Glimmer comes with built-in 
data-binding support to greatly facilitate synchronizing UI with domain models.

Instructions for use with stand-alone SWT:
1. Download the "SWT binary and source" archive from the Eclipse site and follow their instructions.
   http://www.eclipse.org/swt/
2. Have your program require the file: src/swt.rb
3. Create a class that includes the Glimmer module and you will be able to write Glimmer syntax

Instructions for use with Eclipse:
1. Download and setup Eclipse 3.4, 3.3 or 3.2
2. Download and setup jRuby 1.1.5
3. Modify Java launch command in jRuby script/batch file to include SWT libraries in both:
 a. Classpath; must include %ECLIPSE_HOME%/plugins/org.eclipse.swt*.jar 
  For example with Eclipse 3.2 on Windows, we add the following: 
  -cp 
  "%CLASSPATH%;%ECLIPSE_HOME%\plugins\org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_3.2.0.v3232m.jar;%ECLIPSE_HOME%\plugins\org.eclips
  e.swt_3.2.0.v3232o.jar"
 b. java.library.path; must point to %ECLIPSE_HOME%/plugins/org.eclipse.swt* folder 
  For example, with Eclipse 3.2 on Windows, we add the following:
  -Djava.library.path="%ECLIPSE_HOME%\plugins\org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_3.2.0.v3232m" 
4. Have your program require the file: src/swt.rb
5. Create a class that includes the Glimmer module and you will be able to write Glimmer syntax

Check samples folder for examples on how to write Glimmer applications.