From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-03-13T07:52:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Help a newbie pick a gui tool kit

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:37:22 +0900, Douglas Livingstone
<rampant@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:01:31 +0900, Tom Willis <tom.willis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > In the case of mine, I'd have to program a first person shooter that
> > is as every bit as fun as Quake 3 Arena in ruby. ;)
> >
> 
> Actually, how easy is OpenGL to use in ruby? I remember seeing some
> examples a while back, but never took a close look at the code. A nice
> API for making Ruby apps with an OpenGL UI would be cool :)
> 
> Douglas

OpenGL is very easy to use.  I don't think that GLUT works all that
great with Ruby, although I did see it work once.

But you'd need to find a UI toolkit to use with OpenGL though.  GTK2 is great.