From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T00:40:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any ruby compatible graphics/imaging utilities ...

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:35:22 +0900, Kaspar Schiess <eule@space.ch> wrote:
> Martin DeMello wrote in news:8cXxd.557131$nl.515593@pd7tw3no:
> > Perhaps RMagick could handle the display call transparently even if
> > ImageMagick itself cannot - it'd be a nice feature, and one could
> > probably assume Tk and/or FOX on a windows+ruby system.
> Yeah, I agree it would be kind of nice to not just display: "Sorry, but I
> can't" to windows users when they use #display. But any support using a
> third party library is eventually going to annoy somebody; if its done in
> Fox, he is going to want to add his own stuff to the dialogue, and so on.

Mmm. Why? #display is simply the default display mechanism. You still
don't get your choice of toolkit on X for that -- it gets displayed
with a raw X mechanism, right?

I still think that your alternative goal (sample scripts for each
toolkit) is a good thing, but for simple use, #display Just Working is
probably a good call.

-austin
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