From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2009-01-27T02:47:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk supports only GIF?

Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
> From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com>
>> BTW [...] what does "standard Tcl/Tk" mean?
> 
> I said it as "Tcl/Tk with no extension".
> 
> As you know, Ruby/Tk uses Tcl/Tk libraries.
> It means that functions supported by your Ruby/Tk depend on your
> Tcl/Tk on your environment.
[...]
> Ruby/Tk can use almost all of Tcl/Tk extensions.
> For some of them, Ruby/Tk has wrapper libraries ("tkextlib/*").
> For others, although there are no wrapper libraries, Ruby/Tk can call
> functions of those extensions directly (by "Tk.tk_call" method) [...]

Thank you for the thorough explanation!

(It's a pity we don't have a wiki to collect TK-related info. I did 
search for one.)
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