From: Richard Lyman <lymans@...>
Date: 2005-08-02T23:19:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Factors to consider for choosing Ruby?

On 8/2/05, david@vallner.net <david@vallner.net> wrote:
> Cit�t Brad Wilson <dotnetguy@gmail.com>:
> 
> > However, I will rarely choose Ruby to make GUI applications,
> > mostly because I'm not familiar with any of the typical GUI toolkit bindings
> >
> > (like Gtk).
> >
> 
> Eww, Gtk ;P My quirk is mainly the fact wxRuby isn't quite up to speed with
> lessay wxPython, and all the other toolkits are guilty of my pet peeve -
> emulating widgets even when native ones are available. Which always ends up in
> a plethora of problems, ranging from looking incredibly ugly (and yes, that
> matters a lot) to rendering badly - text overflowing when the person who tried
> to recreate the native look-and-feel sort of didn't think someone would ever
> change the default font size.
> 
> David
> (ikkle newbie in disguise)
> 

I haven't had any problems with FXRuby... that's about all I do in
Ruby - code GUI stuff. Yes win32 is my main target platform, yes I'm
not that bothered by the whole non-native thing, and most importantly,
yes I can code up a front-end to a program in a few hours since FXRuby
feels very ruby-esque and flows very nicely with everything else.

-Rich