From: John Maclean <info@...>
Date: 2006-01-25T11:38:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and Tk:- Menu's calling other widgets

Thank you Chaps,

I've managed to get it going with proc{load 'fo.rb'}. I know that it
may be "bad practice" but I'd like to cut my teeth into a certain
project. 

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:16:34 +0900 Hidetoshi NAGAI
<nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp> wrote:

> From: John Maclean <info@jayeola.org>
> Subject: ruby and Tk:- Menu's calling other widgets
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:13:34 +0900
> Message-ID: <20060125181233.5f308f41@localhost.localdomain>
> > that I can call another file. The idea is to have each type of
> > widget organised into many smaller files.
> > 
> > It the proc{require 'another_widget'} way possible or recommended?
> 
> It must be possible, but I don't recommend it.
> If your each type of widget is a class, 
> 'autoload' may be a good solution.
> Please see some libraries in '<ruby-libs>/tkextlib/' directory
> (e.g. 'tkextlib/iwidgets.rb' and files in 'textlib/iwidgets/').


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