[ruby-talk:01608] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop

Ian Main <[e-mail]> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 03:33:40PM -0600, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > Ian Main <[e-mail]> writes:
> > 
> > > Entity uses GTK, so really, if you can get gtk and ruby working nicely, it
> > > should embed nicely in Entity too.
> > 
> > I'm wondering... while we're making this change, is there merit in
> > making the main loop totally generic, so we can embed Ruby is just
> > about anything? How much extra work would that be?
> 
> This is what we are referring to.  We'll just be making hooks in ruby to
> provide alternative file descriptor watching, timeouts etc. (mainloop).. I
> (and I assume everyone else) have no intention of making it GTK specific at
> all.  It's just that that's what I/we will be using for the test case, and
> the one I am interested in fixing using this :)

And will Ruby itself be using these hooks? That is - will the
interpreter become another user of the embedded Ruby engine. This
strikes me as a good idea, as it means we'll be exercising it all the
time.


Dave