Our First Tk Application
The Ruby/Tk binding code lives in a file named tk.rb somewhere in the load path. We need to require this file in any Ruby script that will use the Tk toolkit.
Listing 17.1 is our first Tk script.
Listing 17.1. A "Hello, World" Application in Ruby/Tk
01: #!/usr/bin/env ruby
02:
03: require 'tk'
04:
05: root = TkRoot.new { title "Our First Tk App" }
06: label = TkLabel.new(root) do
07: text "Hello, world!"
08: pack("padx" => 90)
09: end
10: Tk.mainloop
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Figure 17.1 shows how this program appears on the screen when it's run. (Note that this screenshot and all of the others in this chapter were produced on a Microsoft Windows platform. On other platforms the results may look different, but not significantly so.)
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