From: Serg Koren Date: 2008-02-25T01:35:46+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyTk...books and links and such > Well I just discovered that "Making Use of Ruby" has a chapter as well; it seems a bit more thorough and better organized than the one in "picaxe". It's still not complete though; no mention of menus for example. Picaxe gives a brief overview and then pretty much throws its hands up and says "you're on your own now. go look at Perl docs." Not very useful. Still looking for a thorough treatment... Just my two cents... > From: Serg Koren > Date: 24 Feb 2008 15:04 > Subject: Re: RubyTk...books and links and such > To: Thomas Adam > > > Everything lol. Just starting to learn and was trying to find a good > GUI toolkit. FX looks promising but it doesn't seem to install > without a lot of hassles on OSX...and that usually means that's not > the only problem. I also looked at "Shoes" but that doesn't look > promising because of the history with HacketyHack (being dropped). > Basically, I'm interested in stability and ease of use. > > > > Personally, I'd like to get rid of the silly background image on the > link http://members.chello.nl/~k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/ so I can > read it without going cross-eyed ;-) > > Thanks for the suggestions though; it helps. > > > On Feb 24, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Thomas Adam wrote: > >> Hello -- >> >> On 24/02/2008, Serg Koren wrote: >>> Any RubyTk books around? I haven't been able to find anything >>> online. I see there is a RubyFX book coming out but that doesn't >>> seem >>> very stable from everything I've read on OS X. >> >> There's chapter in the Pickaxe book about Ruby and Tk as well as a >> dedicated mailing list hosted via googlegroups on the matter and this >> page here: >> >> http://members.chello.nl/~k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/ >> >> Just what is it you're wanting to know? >> >> -- Thomas Adam >