From: EVMan <nowhere@...>
Date: 2007-08-08T12:05:05+09:00
Subject: Ruby GUI redux

Thanks to all who gave the GUI advice earlier.  I think I will start with
Ruby-Tk, since I am new at Ruby and Tk is a much lighter weight GUI
builder than some of the others.  And, I know Perl-Tk very well.

So far there is no Ruby-Tk book and I have been googling for examples.  I
have collected enough to tell that Ruby-Tk works and looks just fine.

But...
I have found lists and examples of the common widgets - buttons,
listboxes, etc - but they are fairly trivial examples.  Each (Perl) TK
widget has many options and parameters and some have a ton of them.  I
don't know enough Ruby yet to make it obvious how to convert a parameter
from Perl-Tk to Ruby-Tk.

Searching the main Ruby docs I have found the TK classes and libraries,
but as far as I can tell, the only info they give is the library
routine(s) that is called. I could trace the calls back and then take the
called source apart, but I am not into self inflicted pain.

Where are Ruby-Tk'ers getting the detailed info on each widget?

Thanks again.

Evman