From: "Kontra, Gergely" <kgergely@...>
Date: 2002-04-24T01:57:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk under Ruby [newbie to ruby]

>"Kontra, Gergely" wrote:
>> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I'd like to use Tk under ruby.
>> 
>> My main problem, that I want to use Tk in the other way: it must listen
>> to a port, and display incoming data.
>> 
>> My problem: when I call Tk.mainloop, it will never return.
>> Shall I write?
>> 
>> Thread.new { Tk.mainloop }
>> 
>> Looks ugly...
>> 
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>
>use Tk.after in a thread to read in your socket, then launch
>Tk.mainloop.
>
>beside that: I think That Tk.mainloop should be re-written in the ruby's
>interpreter source, but who can do that ?
>

Now I don't think Thread.new { Tk.mainloop } looks ugly anymore.
Perhaps in the future require 'tk' should implicitly start Tk.mainloop
in background, so everything happens 'immediate', as in Tcl/tk, without
explicitly starting Tk.mainloop.

What do you think about it?

Gergo


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