RwdTinker is a web brower interface to and system for developing programs
Usage
How to Use the Tinker framework Program (rwdtinker)
1. stand alone application 2. framework for building applications 3. Open brower windows with html documents
The GUI interface used is RubyWebDialogs The source code and the gui code are split into atomic parts and use init.rb to merge the parts together.
With the framework, we are able to ship a "plugin" or "applet" that can be dropped into a directory and installed automatically. Also uninstalled. I am calling this framework Tinker, so the core program I call rwdtinker. My wife, Charlotte. suggested the name. It relates to the "Tinker Toys" that has blocks and dowls and shapes that can be assembled by children and take different shapes. Without the word toy, it reminds us if the older English meaning of "a person who repairs pots and household devices by soldering and hammering.
The delivered applet is setup in the required directory structure with code configueration gui including help files location of documentation rwd_files = where documention for the applet can go. installed = a inf file that lists the manifest of files
This package is zipped up and uploaded as a file like rwdashedule-0.2.zip
The enduser who has the rwdtinker program drops the zip file into a directory called zips. I have parts of rwdtinker now (for Linux) that can install it automatically and remove it (based on the .inf file)
rwdaddresses a little address book
rwdmovies a database for tracking your dvds and vhs movie collection
you can find these on rubyforge.org
Also look for a program called redpimp on rubyforge.org
It is planned to be a pim using RubyWebDialogs
you can find this at http://redpimp.rubyforge.org