From: Neil Conway <nconway@...>
Date: 2001-09-12T03:06:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21150] Re: Ruby-GTK / Ruby-glade problems

On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 08:24, Craig Files wrote:
> We are very interested in using Ruby/LibGlade for a project, but in
> playing with it have found a few problems.
> 
> It seems there is only a subset of the standard Glade generated widgets
> that it understands.  We don't know if this is a limitation of
> Ruby/LibGlade, or Ruby-GTK, or what.

Most of GTK has been wrapped in Ruby (check the ToDo file for a list of
the widgets yet to be implemented). Ruby-GNOME is less complete, I
believe.

> For example, if using a menu item with an icon, the following error is
> given:
> 
> ** WARNING **: unknown widget class 'GtkPixmapMenuItem'

I believe this widget is actually part of the GNOME UI libs, not GTK
itself. Have you installed Ruby-GNOME? I briefly checked, however, and I
believe that support for this widget it not yet implemented (someone
correct me if I'm wrong, I didn't look too hard).

I've been hacking on Ruby-GTK recently -- I'll take a look at
implementing GtkPixmapMenuItem, it shouldn't be too difficult.

FYI, I'm also working on wrapping the GConf client API in Ruby -- when
I've finished that I'll put it on the RAA.

Have you been having any other problems with Ruby-GTK or Ruby-GNOME? If
so, let me know what they are and I'll try and work on them.

Cheers,

Neil