From: Dominik Bathon <dbatml@...>
Date: 2005-04-16T05:52:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Definitive Ruby/Tk guide?

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:59:26 +0200, Jeremy Bear <jeremy.bear@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I've seen some documentation on Ruby and Tk in places like Pickaxe and
> Ruby Way, and it seems that they seem to say to use the Perl
> documentation for Tk, and covert that to Ruby.  Problem is, I have no
> clue about Perl.  Is there a definitive Ruby/Tk guide or piece of
> documentation out there that I'm unaware of?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy

Hi,

I think there is no real definitive Ruby/Tk guide out there, but the  
following sources should help you, after you have read the Pickaxe chapter  
and the tutorial at http://members.chello.nl/~k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/ :

If you want to see some more examples and get an idea what can be done  
with tk, get the ruby sources, go to ext/tk/sample/demos-en/ and run "ruby  
widget". These examples helped me very much and you can view the source  
easily.

If you need a reference for all tk widgets, check out  
http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/contents.htm. At the beginning it is a  
bit difficult to map the tcl commands to ruby, but once you get the idea  
how it works, it's a really nice reference of the commands and options for  
all the widgets.
You can also look at the tk documentation at  
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/, it is not well documented but you can at  
least see what methods are available and sometimes it helps to look at the  
source.

Dominik