From: AzimuthDragon <programdragon@...>
Date: 2008-06-09T13:51:04+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI library/framework?

Okay, I will give that a whirl Tuesday. SCHOOLS OUT! WOOT

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From: "Charles Oliver Nutter" <charles.nutter@sun.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 3:08 PM
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
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
>
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