> I need to use legacy C++ code in a C++ environment on a Windows 2000
machine.
> I would like to request your expertise converting this simple Ruby
program to C++.
> In am using wxWidgets in C++.  It may be easier to embed this Ruby
code into C++
> however, it seems unnecessary to embed an entire language (namely Ruby
into C++)
> for such a simple program.
> 
> The following Ruby code is a whittled down version of 
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=287.  This code was written using
> Ruby version 1.8.1-13 the accompanying wxRuby on a Windows 2000
machine.

If you need to use C++ code from within Ruby, take a look at SWIG:
http://www.swig.org/.

If you want to translate an existing wxRuby code into C++... I don't
know of any automated tool that'll help you do that, but the wxRuby
interface is fairly similar to the wxWidgets calls.

HTH,
Assaph