From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T00:33:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I format outputted text?

Jeremy Woertink wrote:
> Dan Mariani wrote:
>   
>> How can I control the format (font size, color and location) for text
>> that I am out-putting to the screen.  For example:
>>
>>   puts ("Ruby is great!")
>>
>> How can I make this appear in larger font on my screen when I run my
>> program?
>>
>> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!
>>
>> dm
>>     
>
> Doing it in console, you can't format it. There are GUI toolkits like 
> FXRuby you can checkout or just do a google search for GUI toolkits for 
> Ruby. If you do Rails development on MacOSX there is a gem that allows 
> you to have your text in different colors for your log file. Being new 
> to all this stuff, that may be a bit too much, but just keep it in mind 
> if you ever get into Rails development, then hop back on here and ask 
> the question again :)
>
>
> ~Jeremy
>   

Or you could use WideStudio [1] to make Ruby based executable programs 
in a GUI style!

[1] www.widestudio.org

Cheers,
Mohit.
9/3/2007 | 11:33 PM.