From: david@...
Date: 2005-08-08T21:38:39+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby or wxRuby?

Cit�t baalbek <rcs@bgoark.no>:

> But after learning about FXRuby, it is apparent to me that there is more 
> activity going on with FXRuby (now at version 1.2.x. wxRuby seems parked 
> at version 0.6, last updated at nov-2002).

I actually find even the 0.6 version very usable, most of the GUI classes are
there. Although I'd personally like a rebuild of the Windows version with
wxWidgets 2.6.0, but that's just a pet peeve for being on the bleeding edge
accompanied by a reluctance to compile extensions on a Windows box.

> I don't know FOX/FXRuby at all, but would like to hear someone's opinion 
> of the good/bad/ugly of those two toolkits.

The "ugly" says is all. FOX looks very foreign to me on Windows, doesn't seem to
even try to look like the XP widgets do. I stopped playing with FreeRIDE
because of the file dialog used, which doesn't remember the last location
visited, for example.

It all depends on whether you want to play around with the GUIs, or plan to
actually deploy a graphical Ruby application. For the former case, I guess
anything goes, for the latter, the end users might feel weird with a non-native
GUI.

David Vallner