From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-08-01T07:01:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Free(real Free) GUI toolkits

> I haven't tried this (or even heard of it before),
> but it does sound
> interesting.
It was a project started in 2000. It died in 2002, the
author revived it. I hope people to contribute code. I
will create X widgets myself for commercial purposes,
and submit them. Just because it isnt LGPL or
GPL(restrictive licenses).

> 
> 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?

You open wsbuilder, go in to options, then click etc.
then change the language to ruby. then you click
generate code.

here is a small piece of the code generated.
    @newdial_006 =
Mpfc::WSCdialog.new(@newbase_005,"newdial_006")
    @newdial_006.init
    @newdial_006.setProperty("name","newdial_006")
    @newdial_006.setProperty("titleString","title5")
    @newdial_006.setProperty("x",10)
    @newdial_006.setProperty("y",10)
    @newdial_006.setProperty("width",200)
    @newdial_006.setProperty("height",50)

    @newwin000.setVisible(1)

what would be better here is..
Mpfc::WSCdialog.new(@newbase_005,"newdial_006",name,title,x,y,w,h)

maybe it has it, I might just not be looking. I am
fairly new to this GUI toolkit myself. I thought I
should share this MIT licensed kit with the people of
ruby.

I realize this looks a bit messy, someone could help
the developer improve on his code, unless I am just
missing something.

Yes, it does have different look and feels that are 
"pretty". I would like to see this free(MIT) toolkit
improve to a better look and feel to the guis and
widgets.

No, it does not have MDI.  I think I will promote the
WideStudio and convince people that it can be a good
widely used future toolkit. It still lacks many common
widgets. That doesn't bother me since I know X
programming well though :). I do see a bright future
in this toolkit if it remains free. I would definitely
like to see it used in commercial applications, Widget
creation is not very difficult, it just takes a bit of
X programming with the C language. 

--David Ross


		
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail