From: Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T19:07:48+09:00
Subject: Re: DRAW 1280, 1024


On 9 Sep 2006, at 16:50, Paul Lutus wrote:

> Martin DeMello wrote:
>
>> On 9/9/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
>>> Benjohn Barnes wrote:
>>>> Personally, I'm on a Mac. If there is a solution for my world, that
>>>> would do for me. Something global would rock though.
>>>
>>> The best I can think of in portability is using wxWidgets / FOX /  
>>> Gtk to
>>> draw inside a 2D buffer in a window / GUI widget.
>>
>> I think all the GUI toolkits insist on running their own mainloop,
>> which plays badly with IRB
>
> But (IMHO) you shouldn't be using irb anyway. You should be using a  
> user
> entry event loop that evaluates the user's entries with "eval".

That would make sense if I was building an application that did  
drawing and made use of Ruby as the drawing description scripting  
language. That's not really what I want though. I want a very simple  
library for drawing. One that I can use from a stand alone program  
should I wish, but also use easily from irb.

Cheers,
	Benj