From: "Einar Magnús Boson" <einarmagnus@...>
Date: 2008-11-19T05:44:49+09:00
Subject: Re: simple way to duplicate vba's InputBox, Msgbox?

www.shoooes.net
You can get a simple window with inputbox like this:


Shoes.app :width => 220, :height => 100 do

   para "Type some text:"

	edit_line(:width => 200).change { |el|
		alert el.text
	}
	
end




On 18.11.2008, at 20:16 , Phil wrote:

> I've always used VBScript to write the simple scripts I
> occasionally need. But now that I've learned a tiny bit of
> ruby, I don't want to use vbscript anymore!
>
> Unfortunately for me, ruby has nothing like InputBox() and Msgbox().
> While I'm comfortable with the command prompt and often prefer
> it, sometimes its just more convenient to run scripts directly
> from windows.
>
> As I'll probably never need any more "GUI capabilities" than
> those two statements provide, it seems like fxruby, ruby tk,
> etc. is overkill for my simple needs.
>
> I did run across "Ruby & Excel: The InputBox Hack" but of
> course it's slow and at least for me, the prompt is not
> "active" (you have to Alt-tab to get to it)
>
> Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
>

einarmagnus