From: Nick <devel@...>
Date: 2004-12-15T08:14:23+09:00
Subject: Re: wxRuby and other GUI toolkits

To add to my last post: I'd also love to hear if you do GUI developement 
and haven't tried wxruby, why haven't you tried it?

Nick

Nick wrote:
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>  > Any chance you could provide a simplified interface along the lines
>  > discussed at length in
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> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/messages/36fe4224ced792ff,7824fe1d05b4f648,ffa0c9b33be25877,453e05fefa6610b4,79dd1925715e2b10,3c7c01a279f685f6,fc636d28f68f9266,78ac98a3c718caa4,4f3960a377f7eed1,99bd3fcd397cf7d1?thread_id=b901e483a6711f72&mode=thread&noheader=1&q=UI+hal+fulton#doc_36fe4224ced792ff 
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>  > It basically let's Ruby code look structurally like the ui structure, 
> and
>  > uses some variation of dynamic binding to more cleanly define, 
> override, and
>  > lookup wide-ranging defaults.
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> It's a good suggestion, though a little outside the scope of the 
> wxWidgets project. Lit window has conceptually similar to what your 
> talking about for C++.
> 
> http://www.litwindow.com/lwl/doc/html/comparison_10x.html
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> I don't want this to get into a battle of which GUI toolkit is more 
> virtuous; there are different toolkits because people want different 
> functionality. I'd like to hear from anybody who has tried wxruby and 
> didn't like it, and why they didn't like it.
> 
> Nick
> 
> itsme213 wrote:
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>> Any chance you could provide a simplified interface along the lines
>> discussed at length in
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>> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/messages/36fe4224ced792ff,7824fe1d05b4f648,ffa0c9b33be25877,453e05fefa6610b4,79dd1925715e2b10,3c7c01a279f685f6,fc636d28f68f9266,78ac98a3c718caa4,4f3960a377f7eed1,99bd3fcd397cf7d1?thread_id=b901e483a6711f72&mode=thread&noheader=1&q=UI+hal+fulton#doc_36fe4224ced792ff 
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>> It basically let's Ruby code look structurally like the ui structure, and
>> uses some variation of dynamic binding to more cleanly define, 
>> override, and
>> lookup wide-ranging defaults.
>>
>> I for one would gravitate strongly towards such a simplified interface 
>> ...
>>
>> "Nick" <devel@nicreations.com> wrote in message
>> news:41BEFE07.5080304@nicreations.com...
>>
>>> So, having subscribed recently to the ruby-talk mailing list, I've
>>> noticed that wxruby doesn't seem to have the "respect" of other GUI
>>> libraries.  I know GUI-library preference is a holy war almost up there
>>> with vi versus emacs, but since I'm a wxruby developer, I'd like to know
>>> what people "don't" like about wxruby. Otherwise, how else do we 
>>> improve?
>>>
>>> Browsing online, I've found a few complaints:
>>>
>>> Difficulty in getting it installed -  Daniel Sheppard,
>>> http://www.jroller.com/page/soxbox/
>>> Use of ugly integer values for event handlers -
>>> http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~naseby/31.html
>>>
>>> It's a good start (though I don't know what platform Mr. Sheppard is
>>> trying to install on), but any other discussion would be most helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
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