From: Dave <dlc-usenet@...>
Date: 2002-01-18T14:17:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question: RubyTk and Observer ?

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:31:29 GMT, cix <mcix@gmx.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>
[snip]

>In ruby I didn't want to repeat the experience, so I looked for anothe 
>graphic toolkit (GT). I think Tk is ok, but it is lacking of some 
>important things that you expect to be there in OO programming.
>Your problem and your solution are tipical examples.
>With ruby I tried FXRuby, Gtk+ and fltk.
>At the moment I use the latter because it is under developement, 
>so that it is possible to help and to learn.
>So far I am happy with it.
>In any case each one of this GT let you can generate your 
>events that are catched by the "mainloop" even if they are 
>not GUI events (i.e. sockets, filehandlers,...) 

Actually it looks like there's such a thing as a ClientMessage XEvent,
which Tk can handle:  

  http://tcl.activestate.com/man/tcl8.4/TkLib/CrtCmHdlr.htm

Now I've just got to figure out what the Ruby version of
Tk_CreateClientMessageHandler is.