A dummy question

[electrify77]

Hello,

I'm not into computer programming at all, though I did toy around with Delphi many many years ago, but my understanding in this matter is very very obscure.

So my question is how the "visualization" eg. the user interface is created. That question has really been bugging me lately. What I mean is you have that one exe file and do you put all the images, windows, etc. in it and then compile it or is there something else... like maybe you use some Windows stuff and just tell it how to visualize the windows - just like HTML for example - the browser does the visualization of the page - the HTML code just tells it how that should happen.

Based on that I've had some experience with Perl and am now learning Ruby - is it possible to create a Windows program using either of these languages, or they don't have any kind of UI support in them (meaning that the UI has to be compiled inside the program and it's not a Windows component).

Thanks in advance and if that all sounds confusing - please, let me know, and I'll be try to explain it differently, but it's pretty confusing to me as well.

All the best!

[oesxyl]

Hello,

I'm not into computer programming at all, though I did toy around with Delphi many many years ago, but my understanding in this matter is very very obscure.

So my question is how the "visualization" eg. the user interface is created. That question has really been bugging me lately. What I mean is you have that one exe file and do you put all the images, windows, etc. in it and then compile it or is there something else... like maybe you use some Windows stuff and just tell it how to visualize the windows - just like HTML for example - the browser does the visualization of the page - the HTML code just tells it how that should happen.

Based on that I've had some experience with Perl and am now learning Ruby - is it possible to create a Windows program using either of these languages, or they don't have any kind of UI support in them (meaning that the UI has to be compiled inside the program and it's not a Windows component).

Thanks in advance and if that all sounds confusing - please, let me know, and I'll be try to explain it differently, but it's pretty confusing to me as well.

All the best!
one way is to use perl-tk:

http://www.geocities.com/binnyva/code/perl/perl_tk_tutorial/

It's hard to answer to your question in a forum because the answer will be pretty long and probably confusing so I suggest you to try to build a gui following some tutorials and see how it work, no matter what language you use, perl, ruby or other.

best regards