From: Jason Foreman <threeve.org@...>
Date: 2005-06-17T01:13:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Good Ruby Cross-platform GUI toolkit

On 6/16/05, jeem <jeem.hughes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Speaking just for myself, I want a toolkit that is
> 
> 1.  Rubyesqe in its api.  (Uses blocks for events, no integer ids for
> controls, etc.)
> 2.  Attractive on all three major platforms:  X, Windows, and OS X.
> 3.  Doesn't require X to run on OS X.
> 
> 

4.  Has a decent Grid/Table widget


I would write my gui in Java Swing if only JRuby wasn't so slow.  I've
been unsuccessful in evaluating any of the other available gui
toolkits, libraries, platforms, frameworks, whatever you want to call
them.

This is currently my #1 annoyance about Ruby.


Jason