cassowary
DESCRIPTION:
Cassowary is an incremental constraint solving toolkit that efficiently solves systems of linear equalities and inequalities. Constraints may be either requirements or preferences. Client code specifies the constraints to be maintained, and the solver updates the constrained variables to have values that satisfy the constraints. Version 0.50 of the solving toolkit adds support for a one-way finite domain subsolver.
This project is concerned with offering a ruby interface for the original implementation of cassowary in C.
FEATURES/PROBLEMS:
Please consider the current version as software that is still not finished.
Currently we can only say that “it works for us”…
We are using this constraint solver to generate graphical user interfaces with the Multimodal INTeraction framework (MINT).
SYNOPSIS:
require “rubygems” require “cassowary” solver = Cassowary::ClSimplexSolver.new
size = Cassowary::ClPoint.new()
solver.AddConstraint(ClLinearEquation.new(size.X,ClLinearExpression.new(10),Cassowary.ClsStrong)) solver.AddConstraint(ClLinearInequality.new(size.Y,CnGEQ,ClLinearExpression.new(0),Cassowary.ClsStrong))
REQUIREMENTS:
Requires libcassowary debian package available for
Ubuntu Lucid 10.0.4_02 LTS 64 Bit packages.multi-access.de/lucid/libcassowary0_0.70-1_amd64.deb
or
Ubuntu Lucid 10.0.4_02 LTS 64 Bit packages.multi-access.de/lucid/libcassowary0_0.70-1_i386.deb
or build yourself. Sourcecode is available from original site
www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/cassowary/
Copyright Cassowary Constraint Solver: Greg J. Badros, Alan Borning
INSTALL:
sudo gem install cassowary
LICENSE:
Licensed under the Lesser/Library GPL v2.1 or any version above.
Copyright © 2011 Sebastian Feuerstack
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