From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-08-08T12:37:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby GUI redux

EVMan wrote:
> 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
> 

A lot of them buy the Perl/Tk book and do a mental translation.