From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2001-03-01T14:54:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11830] Re: Seeking Ruby/Tk sensei...

Hal 9000 Fulton wrote:

# May I ask who are the most knowledgeable people here
# with regard to Ruby/Tk?
# 
# Conrad, you would be one, right?

Unfortunately, no. (Or more like a minus one at this point. :-)

It's been ages ago since I worked on the Ruby/Tk widget demo and the 
SpecRuby GUI builder stuff (which is waiting in RAA for someone else to 
take over). Since then, I haven't used Ruby/Tk. I was too busy on one 
hand, and with the Ajuba buyout, Tk8.4 looked like most of the planned 
stuff would never get done, so I lost interest, although with ActiveState 
hiring Tk guru Jeff Hobbs, things sure look much better.

FWIW, here is the sort of Ruby/Tk documentation that I think is needed:

    http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~pvhp/ptk/ptkFAQ.html

    http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~pvhp/ptk/doc/

Ruby also needs its own version of Nick Ing-Simmons, the wizard who did 
the fast (and AFAIK,Tcl-free) Tk interface to Perl.

Conrad Schneiker
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