From: MENON Jean-Francois <Jean-Francois.MENON@...>
Date: 2002-02-05T20:06:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Progress with Ruby/Tk

Peter Hickman wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all the help and pointers that people have given me, as you
> can see from my previous post things are going well. But now we have a
> much harder one.
> 
> This is a dialog box rendered in glorious ASCII, monospaced font a must.
> 
> +-------------------+
> |                   |
> |      MESSAGE      |
> |                   |
> | +---+ +---+ +---+ |
> | | A | | B | | C | |
> | +---+ +---+ +---+ |
> +-------------------+
> 
> What I want is.
> 
> +-------------------+
> |                   |
> |      MESSAGE      |
> |                   |
> | +---------------+ |
> | |       A       | |
> | +---------------+ |
> | +---------------+ |
> | |       B       | |
> | +---------------+ |
> | +---------------+ |
> | |       C       | |
> | +---------------+ |
> +-------------------+
> 
> I've noticed a message_config key as part of the TkDialog hash but can't
> see how to use it.
> 
> Can I modify a dialog to look like this or am I looking to create a
> whole new widget?
> 
> I will be going to get Mastering Perl/Tk at lunchtime, but any pointers
> would be nice.

I use a TkText widget and set a fixed width font

jf