[wxruby-users] wxruby, XRC, DialogBlock

Alex Fenton alex at pressure.to
Wed Mar 5 11:40:54 EST 2008


Joshua Lefkowitz wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out the best method for generating GUI's with
> Ruby.  I ended up using DialogBlock because it seems like the fastest
> way. But not I have to work backwards and have not done this before.
> How do I go from the file I generate in DialogBlock to a code in Ruby?
>   
The wxruby example samples/xrc/xrc_sample.rb shows how to load an 
XRC-based layout into a wxRuby program.

To save time, I also recommend that you have a look at the tool 
'xrcise'. This automatically creates ruby code to load XRC layouts and 
link to specific controls within the XML file:

http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?UsingXRCise

alex







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