From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-05-15T23:39:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Need Help Selecting a GUI

Bill Atkins wrote:
> Wx would be my choice except that it requires such a large download on
> Linux.  I would really prefer that the user download as little as
> possible, aside from Ruby itself.  Considering that my project's
> source will be under 300K, it seems silly to require large GUI
> downloads just to make it work.

I once started a project that used nothing more than Ruby/DL, and drew 
its own widgets onto whatever windowing API was available (X, Gtk, 
Win32, etc.). Didn't get very far, but I'm beginning to realize that 
there may be a lot of value  in a cross-platform "pure Ruby" windowing 
toolkit.

Does anyone else see any value there? Has anyone else ever attempted this?

- Jamis

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Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

ruby -h | ruby -e 
'a=[];readlines.join.scan(/-(.)\[e|Kk(\S*)|le.l(..)e|#!(\S*)/) {|r| a << 
r.compact.first };puts "\n>#{a.join(%q/ /)}<\n\n"'