Re: Tutorial

Hi Chris,

the example with the webbrowser does not work as designed in Windows.

When the URL is entered from Stdin it contains CRLF.
After doing this it works:
     handle_url(String.trim_all_whites(url));

Best regards,
   Arie

2016-12-08 15:01 GMT+01:00 Arie van Wingerden <[email protected]>:

> 2016-12-08 14:04 GMT+01:00 Chris Angelico <[email protected]>:
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>> Oh... yeah, sorry about that. The GTK tutorial is way out of date.
>> It's been on my TODO list for ages, but that doesn't really help much.
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> ​I see ...​
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>> Here's a GTK2 hello-world:
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>> int main()
>> {
>>     GTK2.setup_gtk();
>>     GTK2.MessageDialog(0, 0, GTK2.BUTTONS_OK, "Hello, world!")->show();
>>     return -1;
>> }
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> ​Nice! That works out of the box - so no need for extra GTK installs etc.
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> So, I guess the API for GTK has changed and dropped the Alert function
> then?
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> Check out my GitHub repositories for some cool stuff you can do with Pike.
>>
>> https://github.com/Rosuav
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> ​Will certainly check out.​
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> QUESTION: is Pike self-contained in the sense that all module
> functionality is included (so, no extra installs needed to function)?
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> Reason is that Python is so difficult to deploy. If I can:
> 1. install Pike for somebody
> 2. hand them a Pike script
> and then the script runs right out of the box, that would be a huge
> improvement over the Python way, where you have to 'pip install' a lot of
> extra stuff in many cases ...!
>
> Thx for helping!
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