From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-06-09T07:08:47+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI library/framework?

AzimuthDragon wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that's the goal behind David Koontz's stuff in Monkeybars and 
Rawr. I'm pretty sure you can provide your own structure, but he'd 
probably know better. David, you out there?

Alternatively, try #monkeybars on freenode during the week.

- Charlie