fxruby users - Aug 2005 - Greetings and Introduction

Hello Listos!

My name is James, but I do a lot of artwork under my nickname,
''twitch''.

I am a forty+ yrs old full-time Fine Arts Major, who has spent most of
the previous 25 years or so as a sysadmin and frequent programmer.
Most of my programming experience is with plain old C, with a pretty
good shot of PERL or other shell scripting at frequent intervals.

I discovered ruby about six month ago on deli.cio.us, and I''ll never
go back unless they make me LoL

About two weeks ago I discovered ruby GTK+ and started playing with
that (I''m a long-time user of linux) but then discovered that it
isn''t
fully supported under windows, which is where I presently need to
deploy product, and so I switched over to  the Fox gui toolkit.

It''s wicked; at least as wicked as GTK+.

Unfortunately I''m rather new to the practice of gui programming, if
not the theory; and I am having a bitch of a time getting some
blisteringly simple stuff to work (timer-driven callback to update a
horizontal frame in a tabbook with updated text values).

If someone would be so kind as to point me towards the list digest(s)
I would be delighted to go to and do the requisite research there
before I start verbally pummeling you all for support.

I would like to say on my way out that Ruby is an awesome thing and
thanks to Matz and all the crew who brought it to be.

Thanks In Advance,
Twitch


-- 
==================================Woulds''t thou so blame
the fragrant blos''ms wilting
as never to''ve had her bloom?

On Aug 9, 2005, at 7:29 AM, James Stallings II wrote:
> Unfortunately I''m rather new to the practice of gui programming,
if
> not the theory; and I am having a bitch of a time getting some
> blisteringly simple stuff to work (timer-driven callback to update a
> horizontal frame in a tabbook with updated text values).
You might be able to use some of the example programs included in the 
FXRuby distribution as a guide; see for example the datatarget.rb 
example (which uses a timer).
> If someone would be so kind as to point me towards the list digest(s)
> I would be delighted to go to and do the requisite research there
> before I start verbally pummeling you all for support.
The fxruby-users archives are here:

	http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/fxruby-users/

and the foxgui-users archives are here:

	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=6292

I recommend that you peruse both of them, as most FXRuby questions on 
the list (outside of basic installation issues) tend to be general FOX 
programming issues as well.