From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@...>
Date: 2001-05-15T23:40:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15163] Re: GUI framework with direct drawing capabilities?

> I wonder whether there's any Ruby GUI package available which not only
> supports the usual widgets/controls but also has some kind of canvas
> object in which I can draw directly.  It should support Windows and
> optionally Linux.
>
> I'd like to draw a map of six-sided fields (so called hexes) either by
> filling polygons or (preferable) blitting non-rectangular bitmap
> tiles.  It should be possible to add text.  Furthermore, I'd like
> react to mouse clicks into hexes.
>
> I appreciate any suggestion.

FXRuby (http://fxruby.sourceforge.net) should be able to handle this just
fine, but then again, I think most of the GUI toolkits for Ruby can. FXRuby
provides both a basic 2-D canvas (FXCanvas) as well as an OpenGL-enabled 3-D
canvas (FXGLCanvas). The standard FXRuby source distribution includes
example programs demonstrating both of these widgets.