From: Kevin Brown <blargity@...>
Date: 2005-09-22T15:50:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Widget toolkits - layout methodolgy

On Wednesday 21 September 2005 23:29, Logan Capaldo wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 September 2005 20:18, Logan Capaldo wrote:
> >>   Although it would not be hard to provide that functionality as well
> >> as hboxes and vboxes. I guess this boils down to is there a Tk
> >> equivalent to HBox and VBox?
> >
> > I don't know much about Tk, but I'm finding Qt/KDE programming with
> > Korundum
> > to be quite nice.  Perhaps a healthy include 'qt' is in order?
> > (all your
> > HBox VBox stuff is there and it is actually really clean in ruby)
>
> Hmm, I hadn't really considered Qt until just now, but looking at
> troll tech site looks like its got native look and feel for win and
> mac and the ruby api looks clean. I think you have helped me select a
> winner

Glad to help...  Do please note that currently the ruby bindings for Qt/KDE 
libraries are under the GPL, meaning that if you want to produce a commercial 
application, that's out of the question, and the other fact that if you 
produce a commercial app with Qt, you need to pay the licensing fee ('troll 
tax').

If you're doing GPL work, then just ignore this, I'm largely throwing it out 
there for people that don't know or google and find our thread.

All that said, I think Qt is a very strong framework, and worth the fee, it's 
just a matter of getting ahold of a commercially licensed Korundum that's an 
issue at this point.