From: Kevin Walzer <kw@...>
Date: 2009-01-28T02:22:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk supports only GIF?

Albert Schlef wrote:
> 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.)

The Tcl community itself has an excellent wiki:

http://wiki.tcl.tk

While there isn't much Ruby-specific content there, there is a huge 
amount of information about Tk.

-- 
Kevin Walzer
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