From: Tabor Kelly <tkelly-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-02-11T04:32:25+09:00
Subject: Cross Platform GUI Toolkits

Hello,

My apologies if this is a silly question. I have never written a game 
before and I have never used a GUI toolkit before. I am an accomplished 
programmer (at things like HTTP proxy servers), and a senior in a 
Computer Science program.

I want to write a simple asteroids style game that will run on both my 
FreeBSD box, and my brother's Windows box. I want to use Ruby because I 
really want to learn Ruby, partially so I can try out RAILS. I want to 
write a clone of an old DOS game I can remember playing, but I can't 
remember the name of it.

Anyway, I will need simple 2D animation. So, what will work for this? I 
heat GTK+ is nice to code for with Ruby, but it looks like the Win32 
port for GTK+ is kind of unstable (please correct me if I am wrong). I 
have heard that TK is a little painful to program with, but is _very_ 
cross platform (again, correct me if I am wrong). How about FOX? Will 
these GUI toolkits even work, or should I be looking at SDL?

Thank You in advance.

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Tabor Kelly
tkelly-ruby-talk@taborandtashell.net
http://tabor.taborandtashell.net