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In Ruby, when you’ve got to grab some user input, a quick way of doing it is with a gets:
puts "What is your name?"
name = gets
puts "Hi #{name}"
But, we can make the interaction so much more pleasant through QtRuby:
require 'Qt'
Qt::Application.new(ARGV)
ok = Qt::Boolean.new
name = Qt::InputDialog::getText(”My Application”, “Enter your name”,
Qt::LineEdit::Normal, nil, ok)
if(!ok.nil?)
puts “Hi #{name}”
else
raise “The user didn’t [...]
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