From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-12-02T03:16:04+09:00
Subject: Re: what to do, what to do..

On 11/29/05, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Dirk Meijer wrote:
>
> > i'd like people to use the programs i create, the average windows user will
> > not like using a console...  anyway, i really like programming, but i'm
> > still in highschool, and i never now what to program next.  i just think
> > that gui's would give me more options..  anyway, it looks to me like tk is
> > still the best gui to learn, any really good tutorials out there?  (i once
> > found one written especially Ruby, but it asumed you already had tk
> > knowledge, so that didn't work...)
> >
> > greetings, Dirk
>
> tk is indeed the most easily learned gui for ruby.  if really are intent on
> coding gui apps try something simple and post your questions here - i would
> imagine you'll be up and running after stumbling over a few hurdles.

Personally, I had a lot easier time learning ruby-gnome2.  The
documentation is a lot better, and I could use the standard gtk2 docs
as well.  I never quite got the hang of Tk.