From: Chris Alfeld <chris.alfeld@...>
Date: 2006-04-25T00:45:46+09:00
Subject: Re: how to integrate ruby tk/gtk event loop with another kind event loop such as socket server?

> I expect a high volume of network traffic so I need to decouple the gui
> event loop and the server process.
>
> Any help much appreciated and thanks in advance.

The following is probably insufficient for your high performance
situation, but for more forgiving situations:

Tk.after_idle {...}

is an easy way to have your own code run during the event loop.  If Tk
has nothing to do then it runs your block.  It only does this once,
but:

p = proc {print "Hi!\n";Tk.after_idle(&p)}
Tk.after_idle(p)

--

All the geometry managers from Tk are available in Ruby/Tk.  What
problems are you running into?

obj.pack
obj.place
obj.grid

as a backend.  Similar to how Tk originally used X11 as a backend.

Good luck,
c.