From: Richard Dale <Richard_Dale@...>
Date: 2004-10-01T07:30:01+09:00
Subject: Re: QTruby, Korundum - anyone betters? More examples request.

Richard Dale wrote:

> Alexander Kellett wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:36:23AM +0900, MiG wrote:
>>> One example is better than 10GB manual :-) so I please anyone to write
>>> preferably complete tutorial. I think ruby+kde/qt+xml could be VERY
>>> powerful thing but people are lazy and want to learn everything as soon
>>> as possible. Usually the best thing is not the winning :-(
>>> If I'll tell my chief about Korundum, he would probably say that's
>>> great but without manual we will prefer Java in the future.
>> 
>> you make an excellent point.
>> i'm in a mood to improve my ability
>> to write english and to improve a few
>> little qt/ruby apps that i made. i'll
>> do a full tutorial on the development
>> of a given application. i've never
>> used qtdesigner either. so the tutorial
>> will be written from the point of a
>> newbie for a newbie :)
> All I've done is take existing .ui files and make sure they can either be
> compiled to ruby with the rbuic tool, or read in at runtime via
> QUI::WidgetFactory.create. I'm a newbie too. So we really do need
> examples. Is there a Qt Designer tutorial that could be translated from
> C++ to ruby like I did with the cannon game tutorial? Thats a lot easier
> than starting from scratch.
Actually there is a Qt Designer tutorial:

http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/designer-manual-3.html

It just needs expanding to show how you generate ruby code with rbuic, and
then build the complete app.