[#18974] Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Perl6) — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

There is a thread about using .NET's CLR as a backend for Ruby, but how

17 messages 2001/08/01

[#19064] ANN: Code Amelioration Contest (presented by Ruby Conference 2001) — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

17 messages 2001/08/03
[#19184] Re: ANN: Code Amelioration Contest (presented by Ruby Conference 2001) — John Carter <john.carter@...> 2001/08/06

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, David Alan Black wrote:

[#19185] Re: ANN: Code Amelioration Contest (presented by Ruby Conference 2001) — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2001/08/06

Hello --

[#19186] Re: ANN: Code Amelioration Contest (presented by Ruby Conference 2001) — John Carter <john.carter@...> 2001/08/06

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, David Alan Black wrote:

[#19125] My 1st look @ ruby: No prototypes and problem with String#gsub — stesch@... (Stefan Scholl)

My first ruby program:

23 messages 2001/08/04

[#19192] Some remarks from a nembie in Ruby — Renaud HEBERT <renaud.hebert@...>

After having read the book "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's

38 messages 2001/08/06

[#19269] Re: Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Parrot, can Ruby play too?) — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

In article <72X97.12093$9i1.972452@e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com>,

50 messages 2001/08/07
[#19349] Re: Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Parrot, can Ruby play too?) — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2001/08/08

[#19456] Re: Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Parrot, can Ruby play too?) — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...> 2001/08/09

Ned Konz wrote:

[#19451] Re: Help! I'm still confused about threadin g in the ML — "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@...>

> Is there an Outlook option to turn on In-Reply-To or References

14 messages 2001/08/09
[#19453] Re: Help! I'm still confused about threadin g in the ML — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2001/08/09

"Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@snelling.com> writes:

[#19506] the way class variables work — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hello --

51 messages 2001/08/10
[#19511] Re: the way class variables work — Chris Uzdavinis <chris@...> 2001/08/11

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

[#19524] order and freedom in Ruby (was: Re: Re: the way class variables work) — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2001/08/11

Hello --

[#19517] Why not?: Assigning to self — furufuru@... (Ryo Furue)

Hi there,

55 messages 2001/08/11
[#19689] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...> 2001/08/14

On 13 Aug 2001 20:59:54 -0700, furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ryo Furue)

[#19694] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — Ned Konz <ned@...> 2001/08/14

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 05:09 am, Ron Jeffries wrote:

[#19695] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — ts <decoux@...> 2001/08/14

>>>>> "N" == Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:

[#19696] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — Ned Konz <ned@...> 2001/08/14

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 07:51 am, you wrote:

[#19697] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — ts <decoux@...> 2001/08/14

>>>>> "N" == Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:

[#19700] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — Ned Konz <ned@...> 2001/08/14

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 08:27 am, you wrote:

[#19701] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — ts <decoux@...> 2001/08/14

>>>>> "N" == Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:

[#19703] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — Ned Konz <ned@...> 2001/08/14

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:05 am, Guy Decoux wrote:

[#19704] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — ts <decoux@...> 2001/08/14

>>>>> "N" == Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:

[#19708] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — Ned Konz <ned@...> 2001/08/14

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:27 am, you wrote:

[#19709] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — ts <decoux@...> 2001/08/14

>>>>> "N" == Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:

[#19713] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — Ned Konz <ned@...> 2001/08/14

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:45 am, you wrote:

[#19750] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/08/15

Hi,

[#19819] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — Ned Konz <ned@...> 2001/08/15

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 08:14 pm, matz wrote:

[#19852] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/08/16

Hi,

[#19857] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@...> 2001/08/16

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:05:59AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#19858] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/08/16

Hi,

[#19867] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self — "Pit Capitain" <pit@...> 2001/08/16

Just a followup at (my) current end of the thread:

[#19550] Forced garbage collection — Lars Christensen <larsch@...>

14 messages 2001/08/11
[#19562] Re: Forced garbage collection — "Nat Pryce" <nat.pryce@...13media.com> 2001/08/12

From: "Lars Christensen" <larsch@cs.auc.dk>

[#19551] /.ed again — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Ruy gets slasdotted again ;)

19 messages 2001/08/11

[#19650] Ruby Newbie mailing list — Michael Pence <mikepence@...>

Hello all.

14 messages 2001/08/13
[#19656] RE: Ruby Newbie mailing list — "Louis Brothers" <lcb134@...> 2001/08/13

We had a similar discussion on the OmniWeb Objective-C mailing list not to

[#19659] Re: Ruby Newbie mailing list — Michael Pence <mikepence@...> 2001/08/13

I appreciate your references to Objectionable-C ;-)

[#19685] Compiling Ruby with cygwin and Tk support — Manuel Zabelt <ng@...>

Hello!

13 messages 2001/08/14

[#19718] General (GUI/license) questions — Ryan Tarpine <rtarpine@...>

First: Kero commented in the description of his new Ruby Agenda program

18 messages 2001/08/14

[#19755] "new" returning nil: how to report the failure of object creation — furufuru@... (Ryo Furue)

Hi there,

14 messages 2001/08/15

[#19758] The GUI poll is in, and the results are surprising — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

40 messages 2001/08/15
[#19774] Re: The GUI poll is in, and the results are surprising — Lars Christensen <larsch@...> 2001/08/15

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

[#19784] Re: The GUI poll is in, and the results aresurprising — "Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson@...> 2001/08/15

> Please don't forget what Ruby is all about in this discussion! I think

[#19824] Ruby GUI — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

The concept of a new GUI is somewhat appealing,

16 messages 2001/08/15

[#20033] Ruby Article — Joshua Drake <jd.nospam@...>

Hello,

38 messages 2001/08/20

[#20127] Another Possible RCR - Wrappers via Mixins — Stephen White <spwhite@...>

The main difference between mix-ins and multiple inheritence is (to my understanding) that parent classes do not call child code, but mix-ins do.

15 messages 2001/08/22

[#20135] Bruce Eckel's criticism of Ruby — Ned Konz <ned@...>

Python.org links to http://www.mindview.net/Etc/notes.html#Ruby , saying

24 messages 2001/08/22

[#20183] ++ Operator — kamphausen@... (SKa)

Dear Community,

35 messages 2001/08/23
[#20234] Re: ++ Operator — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2001/08/24

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

[#20236] Re: ++ Operator — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/08/24

Hi,

[#20209] In Ruby 0 is true but nil is false.. or how to shoot yourself?.. — Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@...>

I have a simple Audio-CD database (using CSV format). I was writing a

11 messages 2001/08/23

[#20254] File.readline(s) — Michael Husmann <michael.husmann@...>

I am reading a 55MB ASCII file by using File.readline(s) which takes on

14 messages 2001/08/24

[#20303] New Windows InstallShield version of Ruby — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

19 messages 2001/08/24

[#20307] Backwards language — "Sean Middleditch" <elanthis@...>

Greetings,

30 messages 2001/08/24

[ruby-talk:19737] Re: General (GUI/license) questions

From: "Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson@...>
Date: 2001-08-14 21:50:48 UTC
List: ruby-talk #19737
"Ryan Tarpine" <rtarpine@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:h9ee7.103440$EP6.26449816@news1.rdc2.pa.home.com...
> First:  Kero commented in the description of his new Ruby Agenda program
> "Ruby Agenda is written in Ruby with Tk bindings (which are in the default
> Ruby libraries; Tk is likely to be installed on any UNIX system)."  This
> made me wonder; is it better to use Tk just because it is more common?  I
> prefer the look of GTK, but (of course) the needs of the users should
> outweigh the opinions of the developer.  Any comments on this?

If Tk by itself will do everything you need, then yes, it's probably your
best bet. All of the popular Linux distributions include the Tk runtime
libraries as a standard installation option, and Ruby's configure & build
process will detect its presence and compile-in support for Tk. Similarly,
the standard Ruby installer for Windows (from the Pragmatic Progammers)
includes everything you need for Ruby/Tk "out of the box". Strictly
speaking, Ruby/Tk is not very well-documented, but it's not too difficult to
make the transition from the numerous Tk books & other documentation
sources.

The problem is that Tk by itself is a little dated. It's missing a lot of
popular modern GUI widgets, like tree lists and spreadsheet-like tables. To
be sure, if you download & install the Tix extensions for Tk, and then build
& install the Ruby extension module that provides an interface to Tix, and
whatever other incantations you have to go through, you'll end up with a
better-looking GUI. I could probably pull off this installation under Linux,
but I'd hate to have to figure out how to make this work under Windows ;)

Ruby/GTK's API is very, very nice, but it seems to be broken under Windows
in the latest release (and yes, this has been reported). In order to compile
Ruby/GTK from the source code on Windows, you need to have first built GTK+
for Windows (and thus have the GTK+ import libraries). I tried doing this
and got frustrated by all the dependencies pretty quickly.

Which leads to the inevitable conclusion (inevitable, since I'm the one
writing this post). FXRuby (http://fxruby.sourceforge.net) works pretty well
on both Windows and Linux. The binary installer for Windows (that you can
download from the FXRuby home page) is compatible with the latest Ruby
installer for Windows and has everything you need to get started. For Linux
(or other Unix platforms) you'll need to first download, build and install
FOX (http://www.cfdrc.com/FOX/fox.html). You're not going to find FOX on any
of the standard Linux distributions (not yet, anyways), but it's pretty
straightforward to compile it yourself.


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