From: Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@...>
Date: 2009-07-13T19:21:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Are these widgets worth adding as standard libraries of Ruby/Tk?

Hi, 

I committed updates of Ruby/Tk on trunk and ruby_1_8.
Bug reports are welcome.
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 * ext/tk/extconf.rb: New strategy for searching Tcl/Tk libraries.

 * ext/tk/*: Support new features of Tcl/Tk8.6b1 and minor bug fixes.
      ( [KNOWN BUG] Ruby/Tk on Ruby 1.9 may not work on Cygwin. )

 * ext/tk/*: Unify sources between Ruby 1.8 & 1.9.

 * ext/tk/*: Improve default_widget_set handling.

 * ext/tk/*: Multi-TkInterpreter (multi-tk.rb) works on Ruby 1.8 & 1.9.
      ( [KNOWN BUG] On Ruby 1.8, join to a long term Thread on Tk
        callbacks may freeze. On Ruby 1.9, cannot create a second 
        master interpreter (creating slaves are OK); supported master
        interpreter is the default master interpreter only. )

 * ext/tk/lib/tkextlib/*: Update supported versions of Tk extensions.
          Tcllib 1.8/Tklib 0.4.1  ==>  Tcllib 1.11.1/Tklib 0.5
          BWidgets 1.7            ==>  BWidgets 1.8
          TkTable 2.9             ==>  TkTable 2.10
          TkTreeCtrl 2005-12-02   ==>  TkTreeCtrl 2.2.9
          Tile 0.8.0/8.5.1        ==>  Tile 0.8.3/8.6b1
          IncrTcl 2005-02-14      ==>  IncrTcl 2008-12-15
          TclX 2005-02-07         ==>  TclX 2008-12-15
          Trofs 0.4.3             ==>  Trofs 0.4.4
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I don't guarantee, but this updates may work recent Ruby/Tk.
If you try, please replace old ext/tk tree on your Ruby source to 
the new one, and make it (may be required reconfigure also).

From: Antonio Galeone <antonio.galeone@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Are these widgets worth adding as standard libraries of Ruby/Tk?
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 06:41:57 +0900
Message-ID: <3fd29a9104b0713578c07dd2f2505f40@ruby-forum.com>
> these ruby megawidgets effectively resolve recurring problems, so 
> according to
> me can be promoted into one library.
> In the future would be ideal to add tab(notebook) and tree ruby 
> megawidget also. In this way we can avoid to use others tcl/tk libraries 
> (like BWidget).

It looks like a good idea.
In the updates, althought the megawidgets are still sample scripts.
those are defined in Tk::RbWidget module (e.g. Tk::RbWidget::Combobx).
If create a Ruby's MegaWidgets library in the future, 
classes/modules will be defined in/under Tk::RbWidget.

> An osservation : in "editable_listbox" and "combobox" when I set state 
> to "disabled" the actions are not inhibited.

Thank you for your report. I fixed them.
Please try the new Ruby/Tk. ;-)
-- 
Hidetoshi NAGAI (nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp)