From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-12-06T02:57:12+09:00
Subject: Re: wxruby and rubymsn

answered on stackoverflow, here's a copy for the sake of the rubytalk archive:

Worked for me. Try this: copy the minimal sample from the wxruby
distribution, and modify minimal.rb so that you start your msn thread
just before the wx main loop:

require 'msn/msn'

conn = MSNConnection.new("rubybot@channelwood.org", "secretpassword123")
conn.start

# Wx::App is the container class for any wxruby app. To start an
# application, either define a subclass of Wx::App, create an instance,
# and call its main_loop method, OR, simply call the Wx::App.run class
# method, as shown here.
Wx::App.run do
  self.app_name = 'Minimal'
  frame = MinimalFrame.new("Minimal wxRuby App")
  frame.show
end

You'll need to symlink the msn directory inside the minimal directory
to get the require statement working, of course.

You don't need the while true {sleep 1} loop; that's just to prevent
the program from exiting so that your msn thread can keep running. The
wx main loop accomplishes the same purpose.