From: "Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido" Date: 2005-08-11T00:51:56+09:00 Subject: Re: FXRuby or wxRuby? On 8/10/05, Lothar Scholz wrote: > Hello david, > > >> 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> I still have personal issues about reinventing the wheel. With synthethised > dvn> widget toolkits, you still usually go off and re-do the logic of applying the > dvn> theme on each OS. Or maybe not, I'm not going to pretend I've ever seen GUI > dvn> toolkit code here. > > dvn> Still, the discussion was which of two toolkits to use, and I think it is very > dvn> unlikely a synthetised widget toolkit can by definition "get things right" > dvn> sooner or more completely than a native one, and there's always a quirk lurking > dvn> behind the corner. > > Correct. The question is: do you want a multiplattform toolkit ? If > not then the answer is almost always the native toolkit (i guess it's > vruby in this case). Otherwise it depends on your target audience and > your required features. With wxwidgets you easily get into platform > specific problems that you can for example avoid with a synthetised > one. > > If you need exact match of look and feel, for example for MacOSX > programs for the average user, you don't have any chance to use > anything other then carbon/cocoa. I can have multiplatform and native look and feel with Qt. Here is a screenshot of Qt Designer on MacOS X: http://www.trolltech.com/images/screenshots/qt_designer_mac.png The same application looks native on Windows too: http://www.trolltech.com/images/screenshots/qt_designer_windows.png -- Gerardo Santana G�mez Garrido http://www.openbsd.org.mx/santana/ "Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz" -Don Benito Ju�rez