From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2005-08-09T03:04:16+09:00 Subject: Re: FXRuby or wxRuby? Hello david, dvn> The "ugly" says is all. FOX looks very foreign to me on Windows, doesn't seem to dvn> even try to look like the XP widgets do. I stopped playing with FreeRIDE dvn> because of the file dialog used, which doesn't remember the last location dvn> visited, for example. No toolkit does this as it is the task of the GUI application itself, otherwise different open dialogs would show the same directory. So you must blame FreeRIDE here. FOX 2.0 will have theming. There is a patched FOX version out there (search the mailing list) which already uses the windows theming API and looks as native as you want it. Unfortunately you can't link this together with FXRuby. dvn> It all depends on whether you want to play around with the GUIs, or plan to dvn> actually deploy a graphical Ruby application. For the former case, I guess dvn> anything goes, for the latter, the end users might feel weird with a non-native dvn> GUI. Right. But if the target audience are also technical people the different FOX look is not so important. In times of skins, web applications and dozens different GUI themes, the consistence look is not so important anymore. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's