From: AzimuthDragon <programdragon@...>
Date: 2008-06-09T03:30:39+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI library/framework?

Is that so? Sounds cool. So I would be able to package my entire program 
into a jar, .app or executable? I'm still not quite sure how to get it to 
load things from outside the executable though, because the program isn't 
installed into C:\Program Files. Most often it's extracted into a folder on 
the user's desktop, so it needs to be able to generate a filepath. I have 
been using Dir.getwd to generate a filepath to my main file, and then an 
argument passed to the filepath method adds folder names onto the end, lol. 
Would that still work, do you think? Here is my basic structure for the 
program's directory, say it's in a folder called Ecko (doh). It would look 
like this, if you outlined it.

/Ecko
    Main.rbw
    /System
        config.rb
        /Core
            connection.class.rb
            parse.class.rb
            users.class.rb
            extensions.class.rb
        /Extensions
        /Logs
        /Images
            /Screenshots
            /Splash
        /Data
        /Docs
            index.html


Basic layout, but that's what it would have to be able to go into if it was 
an executable. Lol, I must sound like an idiot. xP


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From: "Charles Oliver Nutter" <charles.nutter@sun.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:07 AM
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Re: GUI library/framework?

> ProgramDragon wrote:
>> I think someone already asked this, but I want to confirm:
>>
>>    I am trying to write a program with a GUI, but I don't know what GUI 
>> framework is the best.
>>
>>    I have heard that JRuby is a good option, but also heard that Swing 
>> was a bad idea to use with JRuby.
>
> Not at all, Swing is a great idea. In fact, I'd go so far as to say Swing 
> is a lot better idea from JRuby than from Java.
>
>>    I want to be able to write this program so that the end user can 
>> install ruby, then run the program and it will start with no other 
>> installation needed (like installing gems, etc, however I can do the gems 
>> in the program on first run if it comes down to it).
>
> Monkeybars + Rawr can package up an application with all requirements into 
> a single executable .jar, .app, or .exe...awesome stuff.
>
> - Charlie
>
>