From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-02-05T00:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: A Tk window

Albert Schlef wrote:

>>                  Tk.mainloop()
>>                  Tk.restart()
> 
> Superb! That solved my problem. Thanks.

Read and obey the post by Hidetoshi NAGAI. He maintains RubyTk, AFAIK!

> (BTW, suppose I'll be running my code inside a Tk application. In that 
> case I wouldn't want to execute Tk.mainloop() (and restart(), of course) 
> at all. Any way to find out if we're already running in a Tk 
> application?)

If a GUI is already running, then if you block its main loop, the user will see 
the window lock up. So use @v.wait...

> GTK requires you to memorize CONSTANTS. 
> Shoes doesn't have mature widgets. FOX is a pain to compile. So we go 
> with Tk.

Yay!