From: HT de Beer Date: 2006-01-09T23:03:02+09:00 Subject: Re: About Tcl/Tk Surgeon wrote: > In order to build GUIs with Ruby, should I learn Tk? No, there is no need for learning Tk if you do not want to use it. At http://www.trug.ca/Ruby_GUI_Toolkits you will find some other toolkits available for Ruby. Most of those toolkits use different ways of `doing things', learning one does not mean knowing all about the others. Of course, some general aspects of gui-programming can be learned from using any toolkit. > By the way, I have tried to find Tk tutorials and I have seen that all > of them start with Tcl. Are Tcl and Tk "inseparable" things? If I want > to use/learn Tk, should I learn Tcl first? Again, no. Tcl is a programming language like Ruby, Tk is just a toolkit. For a very short tutorial, see: http://members.chello.nl/~k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/ Have fun ;-) -- HT de Beer