From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-01-20T05:06:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating GUI applications with Ruby 1.9.1

Alpha Blue wrote:
> Roger Pack wrote:
>> you also "might" need Tcl 8.4--give 'era shot, though, with 8.5...
>> 
> gem install tk_as_gem --platform x86-mingw32
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> Successfully installed tk_as_gem-0.0.1
> 1 gem installed
> Installing ri documentation for tk_as_gem-0.0.1...
> Updating class cache with 1669 classes...
> Installing RDoc documentation for tk_as_gem-0.0.1...
> 
> C:\Users\Joel>irb
> irb(main):001:0> require "tk"
> => true
> 
> Works fine Roger - many thanks.  I'm going to bypass Titanium and play 
> with TK instead because Titanium is missing a lot of documentation.

But apparently, Ruby/Tk has an awful API.  The Ruby GUI survey at 
pressure.to found that developers rated Ruby/Tk dead last in quality of 
API, and recommended that it be removed from the standard library.  You 
probably want to use something else.

Best,
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