From: MENON Jean-Francois <Jean-Francois.MENON@...>
Date: 2002-04-25T17:23:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk under Ruby [newbie to ruby]


> >
> >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
> 
when entering Tk.mainloop, you don't exit of the loop, so it must be the
last instruction of your program. I suppose that's why ruby's Threads
works slowly with Tk.mainloop. And that's why I think that the events
loop should be integrated into the ruby's interpreter loop.

jf


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