Ruby and GTK

ruby-talk
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Hi,

Ruby supports some interface to GTK, but from the FAQ it is unclear to which extent. Older documentation at rubygarden.org mentions that a port to GTK 2.0 is to be implemented.

Fortunately Ruby is able to use the GTK-server package as well (http://www.gtk-server.org/). It runs with the preferred STDIN interface. The GTK-server provides almost unlimited access to graphical user interfaces using GTK. Due to the design of the GTK-server any GTK version can be used.

Demoprograms with Ruby can be found at the examples section.

Regards

Peter

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The Ruby/GTK bindings for GTK 2.0 fall under the Ruby/GNOME2 project,
see the project page at: http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/
(hmm, which seems to have a broken Hiki setup right at this moment).

IMO great bindings.. had to switch back (yes, back) to PyGTK last week,
one can see again how nice Ruby/GNOME2 is, bound with care :slight_smile:

Paul

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On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:04:47PM +0900, Peter wrote:

Ruby supports some interface to GTK, but from the FAQ it is unclear to
which extent. Older documentation at rubygarden.org mentions that a port
to GTK 2.0 is to be implemented.

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Hi,

Hi,

Ruby supports some interface to GTK, but from the FAQ it is unclear to
which extent. Older documentation at rubygarden.org mentions that a port
to GTK 2.0 is to be implemented.

Fortunately Ruby is able to use the GTK-server package as well
(http://www.gtk-server.org/\). It runs with the preferred STDIN
interface. The GTK-server provides almost unlimited access to graphical
user interfaces using GTK. Due to the design of the GTK-server any GTK
version can be used.

Demoprograms with Ruby can be found at the examples section.

This is cool, but I use the standard Ruby-GNOME2 bindings, which
provide Ruby-GTK2 bindings as well. As I have some screenshots on the
Web, I feel I can show you what's possible with the Ruby-GNOME2
bindings:

1. Very simple and custom editor:
http://ruby.com.br/~pedrosa/ruby_editor.png

2. Very simple and custom IRC client:
http://ruby.com.br/~pedrosa/irconnector.png

3. Very simple and custom Master-Detail table editor:
http://ruby.com.br/~pedrosa/escolas.png

4. Very simple and custom Chess PGN viewer:
http://ruby.com.br/~pedrosa/chess.png

5. Very simple and custom Joel on Software sincronization program:
http://ruby.com.br/~pedrosa/jos_offline.png

(None of these are available for download, sorry. :-))

I have more of these, because the Ruby-GNOME2 is very good to base
some tools on it -- it supports Windows and Linux seamlessly.

Those GTK+ Mozilla bindings could be handy, too. But I'm yet to give it a try.

Cheers,
Joao

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On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:04:47 +0900, Peter <somewhere@nospam.org> wrote:

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Hi,

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On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:04:47 +0900 Peter <somewhere@nospam.org> wrote:

Hi,

Ruby supports some interface to GTK, but from the FAQ it is unclear to
which extent. Older documentation at rubygarden.org mentions that a port
to GTK 2.0 is to be implemented.

Ruby/GTK2 supports almost of all GTK-2.6.x APIs.
As you say, the information of rubygarden.org is too old.

See Ruby-GNOME2 Project Website

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/

and also

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Status

--
.:% Masao Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>

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Why (just curious)--is it because they are proprietary in some sense, you
don't intend to distribute them, or you just don't have or haven't set up a
means to make them available for download?

regards,
Randy Kramer

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On Saturday 26 March 2005 08:20 am, Joao Pedrosa wrote:

(None of these are available for download, sorry. :-))

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Hi,

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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 02:15:38 +0900, Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday 26 March 2005 08:20 am, Joao Pedrosa wrote:
> (None of these are available for download, sorry. :-))

Why (just curious)--is it because they are proprietary in some sense, you
don't intend to distribute them, or you just don't have or haven't set up a
means to make them available for download?

In the future I might release some libs as open-source, but I don't
plan to do that right now. These programs depend on such libs. :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Joao