From: akbarhome <akbarhome@...>
Date: 2007-02-22T23:25:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Searched Files -- Now Display in UI

On Feb 22, 8:40 pm, drinnovati...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> I made a small simple program to search for regular expressions
> interactively in inputted particular directory and its sub-
> directories.
>
> Its a simple short program in Ruby (one of my Initial ones).
>
> I direct my output to a log file in the format I want to.
>
> Now that I have an Output of Files, I want a UI for this, so that the
> listed files are displayed right there in a UI Frame that I can click
> directly to open. I don't want to get the path from my log file and
> then open it.
>
> 1. To me, I would guess this would need a UI Library. Which one to
> use?
> 2. Can we do this with the File Listed there in the UI frame and I can
> directly open the file from there?
> 3. Platform currently being focussed on: Windows XP.  If the UI is
> portable,I guess it would work under Linux also?
>
> Thanks for your help and suggestions.

Tk is the most portable one (although it is ugly).
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_tk.html