From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-07-29T07:39:47+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI

Laughlin, Joseph V wrote:
> I've been tasked with creating a GUI application.  I'd like to do it in
> Ruby.  Needs to run on *nix.
> 
> Anyone got any suggestions on frameworks, resources, etc?
> 
> Overview of the application: Needs to constantly display data that's
> being grabbed (and periodically updated) from a C library.  Displays the
> data (with columns, tabs, etc).  Also needs to display data in a "3D"
> view (i.e. some data consists of a object that's moving around in 3D
> space.  Need to model that somehow.)  User needs to be able to move the
> objects around in this 3D space, give objects new attributes and
> directions, stuff like that.

Fox/FXRuby has a nice table widget, and also tabs and an OpenGL viewer 
widget. The examples that come with the extension illustrate these 
pretty well. The one thing I'm not sure about is user interaction with 
the 3D objects. The GL viewer has its own interactions, which you would 
have to override.