From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-08-01T06:31:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Free(real Free) GUI toolkits

David Ross wrote:
> Has anyone tried using the WideStudio libraries with
> Ruby? They seem to be neat and clean on the unix
> operating systems. Anyone tried it with Windows or
> MacOSX? I need some input please. It is a MIT licensed
> and completely free toolkit, compared to LGPL. It has
> a IDE which is very easy to design with. It has
> extensions for many languages. 
> 
> English page: http://www.widestudio.org/EE/index.html
> Japanese page: http://www.widestudio.org
> 
> Please give some input on it.
> 
> Supports C/C++, Perl, Python, Ruby programing
> language.

I haven't tried this (or even heard of it before), but it does sound
interesting.

Some questions I would have:

1. It mentions it supports Ruby -- I guess the app designer can generate
Ruby code -- but I've never heard of a Ruby binding for it. What's the
deal there?

2. I wonder if it supports MDI. I know the whole industry is trending
away from MDI, but I adamantly maintain that it makes sense in some
cases. (Large number of tiny documents as opposed to a small number
of large docs.)



Hal