From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2010-03-02T01:32:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk on Windows and Mac OS X 10.6

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Hidetoshi NAGAI
> <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp> wrote:
>> From: mdiam <maurice.diamantini@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Tk on Windows and Mac OS X 10.6
>> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:16:41 +0900
>> Message-ID: <f758cf0f-774f-47a2-8069-1d53ea4b08f7@f15g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>
>>> The FFI ffi-tk ruby project should work with any plateform
>>> (e.g.  jruby but also macruby, etc...).
>>> But if Hidetoshi hasn't choose that way (i.e. ffi) for tk,
>>> propably there is a good reason (like the threads, or simply
>>> it much more work ?)
>>
>> Because I'm not familiar with FFI, I don't have good ideas to soleve
>> complexity of combination of callbacks, threads, and exceptions.
> [...]
>
> Manveru has an ffi-tk gem for Ruby 1.9. He says it should run on any
> Ruby 1.9 installation that has FFI installed (either as a gem, as with
> MRI, or as part of the installation, as with JRuby or Rubinius).

I actually just tested it on windows today, had to do some tweaks, but
it runs (together with EM even) with just two lines of modification (i
had guessed the name of the dll wrong).
Will push a new gem tomorrow when i get confirmation that OSX still works.

>
> http://github.com/manveru/ffi-tk
>
> Axel wrote:
>> axel  DOD  friedrich_smail   ED  gmx  DOD  de
>
> I think you meant "DOT" and "AT".


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Michael Fellinger
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