From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T16:26:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Does Ruby/Tk have all features as perl/Tk or java swing?

On 7/12/05, Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp> wrote:
> From: ngoc <ngoc@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Does Ruby/Tk have all features as perl/Tk or java swing?
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:55:50 +0900
> Message-ID: <42d43b3a$1@news.broadpark.no>
> > 1. Does Ruby/Tk have all features as perl/Tk or java swing?
> 
> perl/Tk uses the "ptk" library. I heard that includes standard Tk
> widgets and some megawidgets from some extensions.
> Ruby/Tk uses standard Tcl/Tk libraries. Then, the features of
> Ruby/Tk is less than perl/Tk.
> However, Ruby/Tk can use almost all of Tcl/Tk extensions.
> At leaset 1.8.2 or later, Ruby/Tk has support libraries for some
> Tcl/Tk extensions. If includes such supports, Ruby/Tk has more
> features than perl/Tk.
> And it will be also an advantage that Ruby/Tk can use the features
> of the latest Tcl/Tk.
> Ruby/Tk can work with the latest Tcl/Tk 8.4.11 or 8.5a3.

So if I want to use Tk 8.5a3, I just install it and I can use it
through Ruby?  Do I need to recompile Ruby if I update Tk?