From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2001-03-09T22:21:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12325] Re: GUI Toolkit for Ruby

On 09 Mar 2001 20:21:47 +0900,  wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 07:36:45PM +0900, Erik B�gfors wrote:
> > There is a set of libraries named wxwindows that seams to have done a
> > really good job (alot better than awt :) ).  They have worked long and
> > hard in overcomming the problems in different toolkits. wxpython has
> > made lot of success and there is even talk about letting it be the
> > default window-system for python in the future.
> 
> I agree.  I like wxWindows a lot (even though there don't seem to
> be Ruby bindings).  However, I was thinking of this in terms of
> quick-hack GUIs, such as administration programs for convenience
> as opposed to robustness.  The user would write his quick hack in
> this "Toolkit" and it would figure out what was available and run
> accordingly.
> 
> The problem (albeit minor) with wxWindows is that there's a
> download involved.  Most Linux users are fine with that, but Mac
> and Windows users don't usually consider downloading things so
> that they can run a GUI, given that they're given perfectly good
> (relatively speaking) GUIs with their OS.  If this "Toolkit"
> included XWindows, Win32 and MacOS support, they wouldn't need to
> worry about it, unless they wanted to.


That's why wxwindows with bindings should be included in the ruby
distribution so they don't have to do anything special to have it.  Kind
of like tk is right now.

/Erik

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