From: Phlip <phlipcpp@...>
Date: 2003-06-23T01:49:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Exasperated with ruby/tk - anybody successfully using it?

Richard Browne wrote:

> General question: Is ruby/tk still being maintained in 1.7/1.8 or is it
> dead? There is no documentation that I can find, and almost everything I
try
> results in a ruby error/bug. For example:
>
> - Attempt to use TkSpinbox result in 'tk_call': invalid command name
> `spinbox'
>
> - Attempt to use TkOptionMenubutton results in `__invoke': unknown option
> "-kind_of"
>
> - The <MenuSelect> event with TkOptionMenubutton does not work properly
>
> - Attempt to use the -command option with TkOptionMenubutton results in
> `__invoke': unknown option "-command"
>
> - I upgraded to  ruby180-9 from http://rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net/, and
> after doing so the Tk.mainloop call never even returns!!

Hidetoshi Nagai may be unfamiliar with Ruby on Win32.

That installer comes with both Ruby/Tk and the raw binary Tk underneath it.
So if it can't do these simple things, complain to the installer's mailing
lists.

> Is anybody using ruby/tk successfully?

I'm making an excellent example of it.

Especially the TkCanvas. It's better than other wrappers on the TCL/TK
Canvas.

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  Phlip
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