October 15
Unexpectedly, the development version of Mondrian gets a debugger! Weird.

August 23
Added a developers page and started releasing very unstable development versions that should be used only for entertainment.

August 7
Mondrian beta8 has been released, fixing a few annoying bugs. Here's the usual forum post.

March 30
There is a tentative new beta which should work under FXRuby 1.2. Read more here!

August 14
By not being updated for 3 months, Mondrian reveals itself to be an open source program after all! Some notes on the current state of Mondrian.



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Mondrian and RubyScript2Exe

(RubyScript2Exe is a utility that creates a single binary file containing everything needed to run a ruby program, including Ruby itself. The following are instructions from Mark Felt, who was kind enough to get it working, with my notes in italics.)

  1. Use 'rubyscript2exe' to create an executable (still needs a tweak!) (Execute rubyscript2exe Mondrian.rbw and close Mondrian when it runs)
  2. Copy the executable to a new directory.
  3. Extract the files from the executable. (I used Mondrian.exe --eee-justextract)
  4. _Most Important_: Copy the 'icons' & 'images' from the Mondrian IDE to the extracted 'apps' directory.
  5. Edit the extracted 'apps.eee' file. (My file was just 'app.eee')
  6. Remove these two lines: 'd apps' & 'f apps/Mondrian.rbw' (Again, for me it was just 'app' in all cases.)
  7. Add 'r apps' somewhere _before_ the last line in 'apps.eee' (i.e. _DO NOT_ add it as the last line!!!) (Just 'app' again.)
  8. In the directory you extracted the files from the created executable, run: 'eee apps.eee Mondrian'. (I had success with eeew app.eee Mondrian.exe Mondrian_new.exe.)

You should now have a new executable which is completely self contained and should work anywhere. (I tested my copy on a minimalistic copy of Windows XP.)