From: AzimuthDragon <programdragon@...>
Date: 2008-06-10T13:12:26+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI library/framework?

Thanks, David. I will be sure to meet up tomorrow night, I have 2 1/2 hours 
to submit many assignments, XD. Anyways, thanks for your time, I look 
forward to trying this out over the summer. :)

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From: "David Koontz" <david@koontzfamily.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 2:29 PM
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Re: GUI library/framework?

>
> On Jun 8, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> Rawr will let you package everything up into a single jar that you can 
> double click on to launch your app.  Inside your program you'll want  to 
> use the get_resource method Rawr provides to find your files inside  your 
> jar (it works outside as well).  The nice thing about that is if  you 
> decide to later split out some data portion of your app into its  own jar 
> (which rawr can generate for you as well) you don't have to  change 
> anything.  The Java resource lookup system is pretty good, so  as long as 
> the data jar file is loaded on your classpath (which rawr  takes care of 
> for you) it "just works".  We can answer more specific  questions over on 
> #monkeybars on Freenode.
>
> David Koontz
>
>