From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-08-05T13:09:15+09:00
Subject: Re: QtRuby Questions: Why does

Matthew Borgeson <hibridmatthias@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Ken-
> First, I do apologize for the long post...i just wanted to be clear and 
> am used to dotting my i's and crossing my t's too precisely in my line 
> of work (clinical pharmacist)

Making minimal examples helps not just in the asking process, but also
in the learning process. Frequently eliminating unnecessary stuff to
ask a question brings the problem into sharp enough focus that you
could answer it yourself.

> Second, thanks for the help. I was unaware that I could pass blocks (in 
> addition to methods) with a signal(as opposed to a call to CONNECT). All 
> the examples I have seen use the control/signal/control/slot syntax with 
> the creation of a slot method.
> 
> I am glad I posted this here not only for myself, but for anyone else 
> learning QtRuby on their own. Hopefully it will make it easier for those 
> who, like me, started their programming with Ruby and are slowly making 
> their way toward proficiency...

I had some of these same issues trying to learn QtRuby for myself.
This particular piece of information was not easy to find. In the end
though, I actually found that GTK+'s Ruby interface was more
Ruby-like, and also very well documented, so my latest GUI programming
project has been using GTK+ instead.

-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/