From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-12-31T04:40:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29752] Re: Formatted Text Pane


> Can it do different fonts, bold and regular face, italic, etc?
>

Yes.  All of the above and more.  You can even embed arbitrary windows and 
images into the text.

> What's a good way to learn about it? Is there a book, a web site, a
> brain transplant, someone in Michigan to pair with ...

Ah, that's the rub.  There is a short intro chapter to Tk in general in the 
pickaxe book, where it is recommended that you use the Perl/Tk Pocket 
Reference from O'Reilly.  (You don't have to know Perl, I don't. Translation 
to the Ruby syntax is fairly straightforward)  But the best doc in terms of 
explaining the concepts independent of syntax is the Tk Commands section of 
the manual pages: 
 
http://dev.scriptics.com/man/tcl8.3/TkCmd/contents.htm

More specifically:

http://dev.scriptics.com/man/tcl8.3/TkCmd/text.htm

These can be downloaded for use locally.  There is also the beginnings of a 
tutorial by Kero Van Gelder

http://httpd.chello.nl/k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/

I also would be willing to help, though I am certainly not a guru; just an 
enthusiastic explorer.  I have used the text widget as the base for several 
other custom widgets in Ruby:  folding trees with embedded buttons, 
single/multiple selection lists, and a table browser/editor with different 
editing behaviour for different types of cells (string, integer, float, 
boolean, list, etc.)

I haven't tried it yet, but I think the text widget is supposed to be able to 
output itself in postscript.

Cheers,
Albert

>
> Thanks!
>
> Ronald E Jeffries
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