[ruby-talk:01252] Re: Tk widget demo; English Tk docs?; Java 1.2Swing

From: Takaaki Tateishi <[e-mail]>

> At Wed, 2 Feb 2000 03:04:25 -0600,
> Conrad Schneiker <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > http://kt-www.jaist.ac.jp:8000/~ttate/ftp/ruby-tk81-demos-1.1.tar.gz
> >
> > Unfortunately I didn't save the tar file, but I believe that these are
the
> > same Tk demos that I already have, since the directory name I have is
very
> > similar to the tar file name. I also noticed that I was using Tk8.2, not
> > Tk8.1, which might also cause problems.
>
> If your demos doesn't have the file which named "tkencoding.rb",
> get the following archive.
>
> http://kt-www.jaist.ac.jp:8000/~ttate/ftp/ruby-tk81-demos-1.1.zip

I already have the "tkencoding.rb" file, but I will try re-downloading and
rerunning the widget demos so as to make sure that nothing was lost or
garbled in transmission. If that doesn't work, I'll try chopping most stuff
out and/or replace all the extended characters (which seem to be
unintelligible to my system) and/or find and install a Japanese font (which
will be unintelligible to me), and see if I can narrow down the cause of the
problems.

Once I get the widget demo working, I can probably "translate" much of the
text to English by looking at the Perl version of the widget demo.

Has anyone done a Ruby-generating extension for the specTcl GUI builder?
(See http://phy.ucsf.edu/~kvale/specperl.html for more information about
SpecTcl and the Perl-generating and Python-generating extensions to it.)

And is there any Ruby/Tcl/Tk programmer out there that is/was
ambitious/interested enough to convert SpecTcl's Tcl/Tk source code entirely
to Ruby/Tk? (If not, are there any Tcl-to-Ruby conversion tools available?)

Conrad