From: "Donal K. Fellows" <donal@...>
Date: 2000-12-18T12:10:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7530] Re: Popping up secondary Tk windows

In article <3a3d2135.347071482@news-server>, Harry Ohlsen
<harryo@zipworld.com.au> writes
>I've written a simple Tk-based GUI using Ruby and, so far, I've been
>able to work out how to do everything I need by reading Tcl and perl
>Tk documentation or from searches on Google.
>
>However, I've now hit a bit of a brick wall.  I have a situation where
>I want to pop up a data entry window at the current cursor location,
>to allow the user to enter a label to associate with an item on the
>screen.

Try looking for toplevel windows in the Tcl/Tk documentation.  How
exactly this translates into Ruby though, I have *no* idea!  Alas,
there's not enough time in the day to learn yet-another scripting
language (alas.)

Donal.
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