From: Josef Wolf <jw@...>
Date: 2006-09-06T01:50:25+09:00
Subject: Re: TkDialogBox missing?

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:13:47PM +0900, Morton Goldberg wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Josef Wolf wrote:

> >>The iwidget widget set is Ruby support for [incr Widgets]. You can
> >>find documentation at <http://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/iwidgets/>.
> >
> >This page mentions examples and tutorials, but I can't find them on
> >this site.  A google search did not reveal anything useful, too.   
> >Could you find anything useful?
> 
> Did you try clicking on any of the widget names in the sidebar?

Yes, but for me, this looks more like a man page than a tutorial. ;-)

> Altogether I think this the [incr Widgets] are pretty well  
> documented. I could wish Ruby/Tk were so well documented.

Well, the iwidgets are documented for tcl.  tcl documentation for Tk
is available, too. ;-)

> I am new to both Ruby and Tk -- I have just started exploring, so I  
> don't have much to offer. All I have done (and only for a two of the  
> [incr Widgets]) is translate the web site's example code into Ruby/Tk  
> and probably not very elegantly. With that disclaimer in mind, do you  
> still want me to post my code?

We could try to reduce the documentation-vacuum by collecting some
examples how to use them.  The examples need not be perfect from the
beginning.  I bet many readers from this list would happily help
improving the code :-)