Forum: Ruby How to enable Tk.Tile for ruby?

Hello gents,

I've got a standard ruby instalation (1.8.6) and ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.4
and 8.5 on Windows XP. What I need is to enable Tile widgets. How to
access them from ruby? It seems like the ruby doesn't know anything
about Tile.

pkg_checker.rb produces the following:

Ready : tile.rb : require->{"tile"=>"0.8.2"}
Ready : tile/dialog.rb : require->{}
Ready : tile/setup.rb : require->{}
Ready : tile/sizegrip.rb : require->{}
...

Actually I don't know how to understand that but looks like the TK 8.5
distribution is OK.

Then I run the following code:

require 'tk'
require 'tkextlib/tile'

root = TkRoot.new { title "Ex1" }

Tile.TkButton.new(root) {
  text "Ok"
  command proc { print "Hello, World!"; exit }
  pack('side'=>'left', 'padx'=>10, 'pady'=>10)
}

Tk.mainloop()

The error is:
test.rb:6: uninitialized constant TileButton (NameError)

So the question is: does anyone know how to enable Tile in my Ruby/Tk
code?

Thanks in advance,
  Nop

Sorry, the error is:
test.rb:6: uninitialized constant Tile (NameError)

From: Nop Nopovich <nop@list.ru>
Subject: How to enable Tk.Tile for ruby?
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:37:02 +0900
Message-ID: <b6bb309989f2f32dd2d0a64d24c048fe@ruby-forum.com>
> Tile.TkButton.new(root) {
---------------------------------------
Tk::Tile::Button.new(root) {
---------------------------------------

Probably it works.
However, I recommend you to use the latest version of
Ruby/Tk (please get it from SVN) with tile 0.8.2.
You may have some troubles, because Ruby/Tk on Ruby1.8.6
supports tile 0.7.x.

Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
> From: Nop Nopovich <nop@list.ru>
> Subject: How to enable Tk.Tile for ruby?
> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:37:02 +0900
> Message-ID: <b6bb309989f2f32dd2d0a64d24c048fe@ruby-forum.com>
>> Tile.TkButton.new(root) {
> ---------------------------------------
> Tk::Tile::Button.new(root) {
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> Probably it works.
> However, I recommend you to use the latest version of
> Ruby/Tk (please get it from SVN) with tile 0.8.2.
> You may have some troubles, because Ruby/Tk on Ruby1.8.6
> supports tile 0.7.x.

OK, that might be. To be honest, it's a big deal to build the latest 
ruby snapshot on windows. So I've just downloaded the latest 1.9 binary 
release. It's 25.12.2007 and ActiveTCL 8.5 had released on 20.12.2007. 
So it seems like that's OK?

But I couldn't even make the 1.9 ruby release to work with TK, even 8.4. 
I've got the error whil running some simple ruby/Tk code:

 Tk::Root::TkRoot (NameError)
        from C:/ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.0/tk/root.rb:8:in `<top (required)>'
        from test.rb:4:in `<main>'

Why could be that?

From: Nop Nop <nop@list.ru>
Subject: Re: How to enable Tk.Tile for ruby?
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:58:02 +0900
Message-ID: <328ae8297f9d2e609ad83de69e1dc247@ruby-forum.com>
> OK, that might be. To be honest, it's a big deal to build the latest 
> ruby snapshot on windows. So I've just downloaded the latest 1.9 binary 
> release. It's 25.12.2007 and ActiveTCL 8.5 had released on 20.12.2007. 
> So it seems like that's OK?

It's not a latest version. I said "please get it from SVN".
Please see [ruby-talk:296196] and [ruby-talk:296361].

# The bug decscibed on [ruby-talk:296361] is already fixed on
# my working copy. But still not committed.

Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
> It's not a latest version. I said "please get it from SVN".
> Please see [ruby-talk:296196] and [ruby-talk:296361].
> 
> # The bug decscibed on [ruby-talk:296361] is already fixed on
> # my working copy. But still not committed.

Hello,

I've just built ruby 1.9 (revision 16072) from svn. But it looks like 
there is no TK support in the resulting package. That means that I need 
to somehow enable Tk support while building ruby. Could you please 
explain how to enable it?

Thanks in advance,
  Nop

Hello all,

Finally i did it, hoooray! Special thanks to Hidetoshi Nagai for his 
assistance!

Now I'll describe briefly how to build ruby 1.9 for Windows (win32) and 
enable Tk 8.5 and Tile support.

1. Check if the last ActiveTcl distribution is installed (c:\tcl).
2. Get the gnuwin32 utils (at least bison and sed are needed, but I've 
installed the whole package. If you will install the whole batch of 
gnuwin32 utils then bear in mind that you have to remove the "find" 
utility. There is something wrong with it).
3. Get the latest ruby1.8 installer and install it.
4. Install MSVC++ or whatever.
5. Open console.
6.If you've installed MS Visual Studio then find vsvars32.bat file and 
execute it. It will set the variables, and you can check that everything 
is ok by typing "nmake --version"
7. %PATH% should also point to the gnuwin32\bin, ruby18\bin, tcl\bin
%LIB% should also point to tcl\lib
%LIBPATH% should also point to tcl\bin
%INCLUDE% should also point to tcl\include

Set this variables accurately! For instance:
>set INCLUDE=c:\tcl\include;%INCLUDE%

8. Go to your ruby source and perform the commands:
>win32\configure.bat --prefix=c:\ruby19
>nmake
>nmake install

9. When everything is ok you may test your distribution as following:
a) open console
b) set variables
set PATH=c:\ruby19\bin;%PATH%
set LIBPATH=c:\ruby19\bin;c:\tcl\bin;%LIBPATH%
c) run the following script:

require 'tk'
require 'tkextlib/tile'

root = TkRoot.new { title "Ex1" }

Tk::Tile::Button.new(root) {
  text "Ok"
  command proc { print "Hello, World!"; exit }
  pack('side'=>'left', 'padx'=>10, 'pady'=>10)
}

Tk.mainloop()

It should show you the Tk/Tile button.

Sorry, I've forgotten:

before executing the script set also the variable:
>set %RUBYPATH%=c:\ruby19