On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:49:46 +0900, you wrote: >However, you must decide how to get information from your GUI. all i need to do is process tk buttons (which button was clicked) , and get the text from a text widget... >irb(main):001:0> Tk.load_tclscript('rolodex') i just tried a loading a test.tcl via irb and it ran ok... the following didn't work though, in it's own file: require 'tk' Tk.load_tclscript('test.tcl') i get: test.rb:3: undefined method `load_tclscript' for Tk:Module (NoMethodError) what's interesting is that a ruby application can have ruby or tcl as a scripting language.... http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1 telnet://ventedspleen.dyndns.org