From: Tom Willis Date: 2005-03-13T22:27:32+09:00 Subject: Re: Help a newbie pick a gui tool kit On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:38:37 +0900, Nick wrote: > > Unforunately I can't get it installed quickly to come up with a more > > informed critique. > > Why does Debian hate ruby? :( > > What problems did you have building it? > > Nick > > > Tom Willis wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:07:28 +0900, Enrico Schwass wrote: > > > >>Hello > >> > >> >So I am still learning Ruby. I am also learning C. I just did > >> >Conways Game of Life in C. I showed my wife and she wasn't impressed. > >> > > >> >I then decided to do it again in Ruby. I was thinking I could use a > >> >GUI toolkit to make it better looking. > >> > > >> >I am looking at them they don't seem ruby-ish. Or perhaps I don't > >> >know what I am talking about:) > >> > > >> >What is the best one for a newbie to get a handle on? > >> > >>I suggest the tk-library. The bindings are already included. (ext/tk) > >>Look at www.scriptics.com or www.tcltk.com > >>Its cross platform and there is a lot of documentation available. > >> > >>ciao > >>Enno > >> > >> > > > > > > I like the wxWindows toolkit at least in Python. Haven't tried it in > > ruby yet, but here's a link. > > > > http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl > > > > A brief look at the examples and it looks like the bindings look a lot > > more rubyish. Pythons bindings made me feel like I was interfacing to > > an external library rather than writing in the language manipulating > > objects etc. > > > > > > Unforunately I can't get it installed quickly to come up with a more > > informed critique. > > Why does Debian hate ruby? :( > > well it seemed I didn't have the development libs for wxWindows. I was getting an error that wx-config command not found. I also didn't have the ruby dev libs. So I got it to build. But I was hoping for a *.deb to be out there somewhere. -- Thomas G. Willis http://paperbackmusic.net