From: vasudevram <vasudevram@...>
Date: 2007-08-09T01:34:59+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


You could try using some of the Python Tkinter tutorials on the Net
and translate to Ruby. There's one from Fredrik Lundh:

http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/

and one from New Mexico Tech:

http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/

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