From: Alpha Blue <jdezenzio@...>
Date: 2010-01-20T06:37:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating GUI applications with Ruby 1.9.1

> 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,

Thanks Marnen,

The nice thing about having so many knowledgeable people here is that I 
get to browse and play with a lot of different GUI platforms.  I've 
already started to play with TK and compared to some areas of 
development, I'm not having much trouble understanding the API.

The first thing I'm doing is translating their TKDocs so that it only 
shows TK and Ruby and I've removed perl/python from their documentation. 
I've also cleaned up the experience and formatted the document into pdf 
which I emailed to my kindle for off-hours reading.

There's also a full application at github for Arcadia which uses TK and 
I downloaded it and am browsing some of the files.

The one thing that helps me with all of this is I used to create many 
GUI applications with numerous languages, namely C++, C#, VB, AutoIt, 
and Java.  I already have my code formatted and ready to port.  All I 
needed was something to port it over to.  I wrote GoogleHack in AutoIt 
which is not an object oriented language.  But, I wrote it using 
functions that were used very similar to classes.  So, as I'm porting 
over the code to ruby, it's not all that difficult.  As for the elements 
in TK, not finding it that difficult either.

What can I say.. I'm a sponge.

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