[wxruby-users] wxRuby 1.9.8

[Alex Fenton]

Hi

Well, there's a new wxRuby around.

== NEW FEATURES

* Enable wxRuby to work with Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.0-4
  - As well as not crashing with these recent ruby releases, 
    there's also some binaries for Ruby 1.9
* Eliminated many bugs, crashers and build problems
  - Includes fix for a nasty crasher in 1.9.7 affecting closed Windows
* Added the context help set of classes (HelpProvider etc)
  - For example, you can use SimpleHelpProvider to show context
    help for individual widgets just by calling win#help_text=
* Added GCDC and ClipboardTextEvent classes
  - GCDC permits anti-aliased drawing using the standard DC API
* Substantial performance improvements
* Many additions and corrections to docs
* Builds are now based on wxWidgets-2.8.8
  - This latest stable version of wxWidgets include fixes for 
    some bugs reported in wxRuby

== INSTALLATION

Source and binary gems from:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=35&release_id=25320

We're working on a mswin-32 binary, but for the moment, Windows users 
using the One-Click installer Ruby might try installing the mingw32 
build. This seems to be compatible; please report any bugs.

== CREDITS

Thanks to everyone who provided patches, bug reports and feedback. This 
version includes patches contributed by Cezar Espinola, Chauk-Mean P and 
Pascal Hurni.

== NEXT STEPS

Plan is to fix all remaining high-priority bugs and then make the next 
release a stable 2.0. All reports and requests are welcome on the 
RubyForge tracker; please give them a high priority (4+) if you want 
them definitely fixed for the 2.0 release.

cheers
alex