# wxRuby and wxGlade? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 8, 2007, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-and-wxglade/103600 "2007-05-08T10:07:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gcarcass)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-and-wxglade/103600/1 "2007-05-08T10:07:59Z")
Hello: Finally I understood the concept of what wxWidgets is, I thought it was an IDE I didn’t understood the concept of libraries and that stuff, but now I have it clear… I think, je je je. I’m using OSX 10.4.9(PPC), I already installed wxWidgets, wxRuby and wxPython, everything is working smothly. NOW, I would like to able to create graphical interfaces in a more “visual way”(event driven) than what wxRuby allows. I downloaded wxPython so I can use wxGlade because I read somewhere that I still could use ruby scripts even in wxGlade, is that so? can anyone illustrate a little more about it? (please in simple language, until last week computers where a magical box for me, je je je) Are there any tutorials somewhere to learn more about wxRuby and wxGlade? ---
**Author:** ![gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gcarcass)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-and-wxglade/103600/2 "2007-05-09T20:06:10Z")
On May 8, 3:08 am, Guaton C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: […] > NOW, I would like to able to create graphical interfaces in a more > “visual way”(event driven) than what wxRuby allows. I downloaded > wxPython so I can use wxGlade because I read somewhere that I still > could use ruby scripts even in wxGlade, is that so? can anyone > illustrate a little more about it? (please in simple language, until > last week computers where a magical box for me, je je je) wxGlade lets you build an interface graphically and then you use that visually-defined interface to generate the equivalent program generating the same interface. So, one general usage is: launch wxGlade, create your application’s layout by installing widgets in the windows/frames/panels, generate the ruby/python/whatever code, call that code from within your main program (preferably in another file) which handles the logic of your application. > Are there any tutorials somewhere to learn more about wxRuby and > wxGlade? The examples given in the wx demo are certainly a very good source to read inspect and imitate. Daniel. ---
**Author:** ![gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gcarcass)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-and-wxglade/103600/3 "2007-05-10T05:06:46Z")
Thanks, I’ll give it a try!!! ---
**Author:** ![gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gcarcass)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-and-wxglade/103600/4 "2007-05-10T05:23:21Z")
Hi all. I’m writing a Ruby program that requires a thesaurus to expand a given term to a set that includes all its synonyms… anyone know of a resource that I can have my program access? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gcarcass)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 10:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-and-wxglade/103600/5 "2007-05-10T10:15:39Z")
On Tue, 8 May 2007 17:08:02 +0900, Guaton C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > NOW, I would like to able to create graphical interfaces in a more > “visual way”(event driven) than what wxRuby allows. I downloaded XRCed (see [http://xrced.sourceforge.net/](http://xrced.sourceforge.net/)) allows you to edit XRC files and define GUIs. These files can then be loaded using wxRuby’s XMLResource class (see [http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/xmlresource.html](http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/xmlresource.html)). I haven’t done it myself with wxRuby but I have used fairly extensively it in wxPython. ---
**Author:** ![gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gcarcass)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 9:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-and-wxglade/103600/6 "2007-05-14T09:09:14Z")
i have been trying to install Ruby-WordNet, to no avail … ☹ I am on a Mac, and I am pretty sure that bdb is already installed by default on Tiger. I downloaded WordNet 3.0, and fed its ‘dict’ directory path to convertdb.rb, but I get an error: Dan$ ruby convertdb.rb /usr/local/WordNet-3.0/dict /Users/Dan/Desktop/Ruby-WordNet-0.02/lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:32:in `require': no such file to load -- bdb (LoadError) from /Users/Dan/Desktop/Ruby-WordNet-0.02/lib/wordnet/ lexicon.rb:32 from /Users/Dan/Desktop/Ruby-WordNet-0.02/lib/wordnet.rb: 82:in`require’ from /Users/Dan/Desktop/Ruby-WordNet-0.02/lib/wordnet.rb:82 from convertdb.rb:38:in `require’ from convertdb.rb:38 Any advice would be appreciated (especially a suggestion for a easier/ newer way to have my Ruby program retrieve word synonyms) Best, DAN ---
**Author:** ![gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@gcarcass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gcarcass)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-and-wxglade/103600/7 "2007-05-10T05:26:21Z")
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:22:52PM +0900, blufur wrote: > Hi all. I’m writing a Ruby program that requires a thesaurus to > expand a given term to a set that includes all its synonyms… anyone > know of a resource that I can have my program access? > **[dev(E)iate](https://deveiate.org/)** > > The personal website of Michael Granger. marcel