Ruby/Tk

ruby-talk
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I have been looking for a good ruby GUI, and TK seems to be easiest
for me. I am quite new to programing in general, so bare with me if i'm
using the wrong "wordage" for things. I have been creating simple
programs, i.e basic skills math tests. But i have gotten bored/ annoyed
of cmd prompt. I was wondering does anyone know of any good tutorials
on how to program w/ TK. I have found some, but they are all very basic
and only go as far as explaining how to put buttons and text on the
window. I was trying to get my GUI more *active* like being able to
output and input information. Perhaps there is a better choice for a
Ruby GUI that someone might recommend that has more extensive easier
tutorials?
Thanks for the help :)!

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AFAIK there isn't anything much more than introductory material available in English on-line for Ruby/Tk. It's really too bad because Ruby/Tk provides a broad and deep range of GUI capabilities. After I (rather quickly) reached the limitations of the available tutorials, I turned to

<http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/ruby_1_8/ext/tk/sample/&gt;

This is not a tutorial but a repository of example code. I have learned much from studying these examples. I recommend you take a look at them. Also, if you have a question about a specific Ruby/Tk element you can post it here. I'll answer it if I can. But more to the point, NAGAI Hidetoshi (the implementor/maintainer of Ruby/Tk) often answers such question, and his answers are always illuminating. I have learned a great deal from them.

Regards, Morton

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On Nov 30, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Erik Boling wrote:

    I have been looking for a good ruby GUI, and TK seems to be easiest
for me. I am quite new to programing in general, so bare with me if i'm
using the wrong "wordage" for things. I have been creating simple
programs, i.e basic skills math tests. But i have gotten bored/ annoyed
of cmd prompt. I was wondering does anyone know of any good tutorials
on how to program w/ TK. I have found some, but they are all very basic
and only go as far as explaining how to put buttons and text on the
window. I was trying to get my GUI more *active* like being able to
output and input information. Perhaps there is a better choice for a
Ruby GUI that someone might recommend that has more extensive easier
tutorials?

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Tk started off as the graphical tool kit for a scripting language
called Tcl/Tk. I have a strong feeling that once you grasp the basics of Ruby/Tk you can get some good ideas about how to use it by searching for stuff that describes what you want to do at
http://wiki.tcl.tk (the Tcl/Tk) wiki.

You'll need to translate the Tcl code that you see there to the
Ruby/Tk idioms but Tcl/Tk is pretty easy to read most of the time.

Morton Goldberg wrote:

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On Nov 30, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Erik Boling wrote:

    I have been looking for a good ruby GUI, and TK seems to be easiest
for me. I am quite new to programing in general, so bare with me if i'm
using the wrong "wordage" for things. I have been creating simple
programs, i.e basic skills math tests. But i have gotten bored/ annoyed
of cmd prompt. I was wondering does anyone know of any good tutorials
on how to program w/ TK. I have found some, but they are all very basic
and only go as far as explaining how to put buttons and text on the
window. I was trying to get my GUI more *active* like being able to
output and input information. Perhaps there is a better choice for a
Ruby GUI that someone might recommend that has more extensive easier
tutorials?

AFAIK there isn't anything much more than introductory material available in English on-line for Ruby/Tk. It's really too bad because Ruby/Tk provides a broad and deep range of GUI capabilities. After I (rather quickly) reached the limitations of the available tutorials, I turned to

<http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/ruby_1_8/ext/tk/ sample/>

This is not a tutorial but a repository of example code. I have learned much from studying these examples. I recommend you take a look at them. Also, if you have a question about a specific Ruby/Tk element you can post it here. I'll answer it if I can. But more to the point, NAGAI Hidetoshi (the implementor/maintainer of Ruby/Tk) often answers such question, and his answers are always illuminating. I have learned a great deal from them.

Regards, Morton

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Ron Fox wrote:

You'll need to translate the Tcl code that you see there to the
Ruby/Tk idioms but Tcl/Tk is pretty easy to read most of the time.

I'm not sure how to start off translating all this code justt see a bit
might help, anyone know how to trans. this?

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Erik Boling wrote:

Ron Fox wrote:

You'll need to translate the Tcl code that you see there to the
Ruby/Tk idioms but Tcl/Tk is pretty easy to read most of the time.

I'm not sure how to start off translating all this code justt see a bit
might help, anyone know how to trans. this?

sorry hit enter =(! ok, this is the code!.....: #!
/usr/local/bin/wish8.1 button .b -text 0 -command {.b config -text [expr
[.b cget -text]+1]}
pack .b ;#RS

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> I'm not sure how to start off translating all this code justt see a bit
> might help, anyone know how to trans. this?

sorry hit enter =(! ok, this is the code!.....: #!
/usr/local/bin/wish8.1 button .b -text 0 -command {.b config -text [expr
[.b cget -text]+1]}
pack .b ;#RS

Follwoings are some of the examples.
Please see also
<http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/138653&gt;\.

-----<ex.1>---------------------------------------------
b = TkButton.new(:text=>'0', :command=>proc{b.text = b.text.to_i + 1}).pack

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From: Erik Boling <schmode93@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Ruby/Tk
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 08:04:46 +0900
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-----<ex.2>--------------------------------------------
b = TkButton.new('text'=>'0', 'command'=>proc{b.text = b.text.to_i + 1}).pack
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-----<ex.3>---------------------------------------------
b = TkButton.new(:text=>'0', :command=>proc{b.text(b.text.to_i + 1)}).pack
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-----<ex.4>---------------------------------------------
b = TkButton.new(:text=>'0', :command=>proc{b[:text] = b.text.to_i + 1}).pack
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-----<ex.5>---------------------------------------------
b = TkButton.new(:text=>'0', :command=>proc{b['text'] = b.text.to_i + 1}).pack
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-----<ex.6>---------------------------------------------
TkButton.new(:text=>'0'){|b|
   command{b.text = b.text.to_i + 1}
}.pack
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-----<ex.7>---------------------------------------------
TkButton.new(:text=>'0'){
   command{self.text = self.text.to_i + 1}
}.pack
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-----<ex.8>---------------------------------------------
TkButton.new(:text=>'0'){
   command{text(text.to_i + 1)}
}.pack
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-----<ex.9>---------------------------------------------
TkButton.new{
   text 0
   command{text(text.to_i + 1)}
   pack
}
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-----<ex.10>--------------------------------------------
cnt = 0
b = TkButton.new(:text=>cnt, :command=>proc{b.text = (cnt += 1)}).pack
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-----<ex.11>--------------------------------------------
TkButton.new{
   cnt = 0
   text cnt
   command{text(cnt+=1)}
   pack
}
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-----<ex.12>---------------------------------------------
v = TkVariable.new(0)
TkButton.new(:textvariable=>v, :command=>proc{v.numeric += 1}).pack
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