From: Rosalind Mitchell <mitchellrc@...>
Date: 2007-04-02T17:55:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Combo boxes in Ruby-Tk

Rosalind Mitchell wrote:

> I'm a newcomer to Ruby, though a seasoned campaigner in Perl, and I'm
> finding my feet, so please be nice!
> 
> I've been playing around with the Tk extension.  The section on Ruby Tk in
> the pickaxe book is sketchy to say the least.  I do have a well-thumbed
> copy of Learning Perl/Tk, so I know my way around the basics.
> 
> My question is:  is there any way in Ruby Tk to implement combo boxes?
> Neither BrowseEdit nor JComboBox seem to work.
> 
> Rosie

I'm a little surprised that nobody managed to come up with an answer to
this.

Is Tk really a hopeless case with Ruby?  If it is, what alternative GUI
manager would you suggest?

Rosie