Hi,

Lyle,

Sounds great.  Thanks for the guidance.

Regards,
Richard Muller


"Lyle Johnson" <lyle / knology.net> wrote in message
news:40AD6C74.1040400 / knology.net...
> Richard Lionheart wrote:
>
> > I just downloaded a neat FXRuby package,  ListView,  from
> > http://www.netpromi.com/listview.html.  It came with a sample app using
it.
> > I thought I might make use of it later,  so I peeled off the example
into an
> > Examples\Ruby subdir and the pkg's files in the folder
Ruby\lib\listview.
> >
> > But that seems wrong because it might get wiped out when Ruby is
updated.
> > On the other hand,  it looks like Ruby updates will go into Ruby\1.9 and
> > Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.9, for example,  and thus not touch Ruby\lib.
>
> You're right that the listview widget is independent of the Ruby version
> (i.e. it's not specific to Ruby 1.8 or 1.9). Since the
> lib/ruby/site_ruby directory is (I think) where your non-standard
> libraries are supposed to go, however, I think that's the appropriate
> place to create a "listview" folder.
>
> Assuming that your Ruby installation has a directory structure something
> like this:
>
> I:\Program Files\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8
> I:\Program Files\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\i386-msvcrt
> I:\Program Files\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby
> I:\Program Files\Ruby\lib\ruby\1.8
> I:\Program Files\Ruby\lib\ruby\i386-msvcrt
>
> then the directory you want to create is this one:
>
> I:\Program Files\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\listview
>
> Note that this folder appears directly under lib/ruby/site_ruby, which
> should be in the standard RUBYLIB search path by default. You should
> *not* need to alter your RUBYLIB environment variable after making this
> change. Copy the file(s) into that subdirectory and then access them
> from your FXRuby program like this:
>
> require 'listview/foo.rb'
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Lyle
>
>


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