From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-03-04T10:56:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11958] Re: Seeking Ruby/Tk sensei...


I sent this a while ago and never saw it come through... if it did, sorry
for the double post:

> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ron Jeffries wrote:
> 
> > Dave Thomas mentioned Gtk to me briefly yesterday (please note
> > name-dropping). Why did you port to it? What makes it better than Tk?
> > Is it similar to Tk in operation? Do the Perl/Tk docs still apply?
> 
> Gtk+ is the toolkit used in the GNOME desktop, and a lot of linux
> apps.  To my taste, it has a much cleaner, more modern feel than Tk.  It
> is similar in that it keeps the model of packing widgets hierarchically,
> and registering callbacks for events ("signals" in Gtk-terminology), but
> it is a completely different widget set and so the docs wouldn't apply.
> The main advantage, for me, is the excellent Glade interface builder,
> which generates XML descriptions of Gtk interfaces, that can then be
> loaded at runtime (see the Ruby/LibGlade module in the RAA).
>  
> There is a Gtk port to windows; I don't know if Ruby/Gtk builds with it.
> If you want to look into it, you can get a package with gtk and libglade
> DLLs from http://equusasinus.com/gru/, and the GtkAda package at
> http://gtkada.eu.org/ includes a windows Glade binary.
>   
> For general Gtk information, see www.gtk.org.
> 
>