From: Jakub Travnik <j.travnik@...>
Date: 2001-11-02T04:38:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24105] Re: [ANN] JTTui  0.10.0 - textmode user interface

Massimiliano Mirra wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:16:51AM +0900, Jakub Travnik wrote:
> I have tried to define a button's block separately from the button
> itself, as stated in the starting-guide.txt, this way:
> 
>   btnTest=JTTWButton.new(main, 'Test Button', 3, 2, 11, 1, '_Test') 
>   btnTest.block = Proc { JTTui.beep }


As the others noted, solution is to replace 'Proc' with
'proc' or 'Proc.new'.

I have corrected that error in starting-guide.txt
(next release will include it fixed).


> I'd like to keep the tasks separated of defining the UI layout,
> binding actions to its elements, and starting it (that's why I wanted
> to define a block with the Proc way).  The ``JTTui.run |root| do''
> way, where all is done at once, looks too thick to me, not because
> it's bad itself, just because of my Delphi Object Pascal past.  Can
> you suggest a skeleton to accomplish that separation?


I have Delphi background too. I'm not sure if I understand what you
want. Show me example of the way you want to code.


> Thank you for JTTui, I've been waiting for something like that since I
> put my hands on Ruby. :-)


I have not been waiting becouse
I have started to code this just after I learnt ruby. Learning took me
one weekend (Jul 13-14) and first parts of JTTui including working
JTTWindow were written within a week (I have them archived).

I have got familiar with Ruby very quicky because I already wanted to
write such (object oriented from base unlike java) language.

Ruby is very good for this kind of project. (I learned python before
Ruby but I dropped it, I dislike __that__(self) __funny__(self)
__stuff__(self))

Ruby proved to be good for project big like this (~5400 lines,
~140KB of *.rb + C extension). However I cannot know how good it is
for team work.

Jakub Travnik
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