From: Steve Tuckner <SAT@...>
Date: 2001-05-16T03:29:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15198] Re: Q: GUI framework with direct drawing ca	pabilities?

Would it be a good idea to develop a pure Ruby GUI framework built on top of
a basic bitblt capability that would be portable across many operating
systems (ala smalltalk's GUI or Java Swing). Would such a GUI be fast
enough? Is it worth doing?

It would certainly be a mammoth effort.

Steve Tuckner

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Bouchard [mailto:matju@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 1:03 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org; Danny van Bruggen
Cc: ruby-talk ML
Subject: [ruby-talk:15195] Re: Q: GUI framework with direct drawing
capabilities?



On Wed, 16 May 2001, Danny van Bruggen wrote:
> > I found links to these from the SDL page:
> > http://froukepc.dhs.org/rudl/ Rubified or Rubyesque Directmedia Layer
> That's the one I'm making. In the meantime, I've made two small games with
> it, so it's working. I could use a lot of feedback! I've been working
> together with the author of Pygame, the SDL-wrapping for Python, so the
> libraries look alike somewhat.
> > http://www.kmc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ohai/index.en.html Ruby extension library
for SDL
> Ohai does things in a different way, check it out to see which one you
> They are both in the RAA by the way!


Hi. By the way I am working on a pure-Ruby implementation of Xlib. I
wouldn't suffer from some help, so if some of you are quite interested,
please contact me.


matju