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TokenHerbz

Sat Dec 18, 2010 3:57 pm


Ruby Graphics:

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I've googled around and came across things like "GTK+ and GNOME" and many other things.

I'm wondering what library would be best to use standard graphics (kinda like turings support).

I'm looking to create simple GUI things and need to upgrade from the ruby text outputs.

Any suggestion/ links to DLs, etc would be awesome.   Thanks!.


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Insectoid

Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:30 pm


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You might want to try Shoes. I myself can't testify for it, but wtd will no doubt show up soon to do so.


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TokenHerbz

Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:35 pm


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Shoes? lol okay i'll google a bit about it, I will wait for wtd or a solid opinion on why to use one over the other i suppose.  thx tho i shall read up on it.


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DtY

Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:49 pm


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Shoes is pretty cool, it's a very Ruby way to do a GUI. It looks very unprofessional though.

Shoes (other than web) is the only GUI library I've used with Ruby, but I know there are bindings for the most popular GUI libraries, GTK, Wx, Tk.

If you haven't used any GUI toolkits in any language before, Tk would probably be the fastest way to get going, but if you are already familiar with one in another language, look for local bindings (but you seem to have already done that without luck).


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TokenHerbz

Sun Dec 19, 2010 7:05 pm


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should i put that into netbeans? I cant seem to use netbeans add thing. anyone know how to directly extract/add the file?


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Insectoid

Sun Dec 19, 2010 8:53 pm


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From what I remember, Shoes is also a Ruby packager. I don't think it actually compiles the code, but when your code is written, instead of using the standard Ruby interpreter you invoke Shoes on the code and it will be packaged into an application-like bundle that you can then execute. 

I don't know how/if Shoes works with netbeans, since I do everything from the command line.


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wtd

Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:11 pm


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Shoes is nifty.  Or just make a webapp.