From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-01-08T06:26:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it possible to create a GUI/TUI toolkit using ruby?

In addition to Gtk and Fox, Qt is supported, as is Tk. I'm not sure but 
I think wx is supported as well. I don't recall seeing anything about 
Ruby bindings for fltk though.

IMHO the Qt widgets are the best looking, so that's the direction I've 
taken. Plus there is an excellent book on Qt (and KDE) Ruby at

http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ctrubyqt/index.html



Dan Shafer wrote:

> I suspect it would be possible but I also suspect it would be quite  
> difficult. And I think the absence of a direct-manipulation graphical  
> IDE is one of the things that keeps Ruby adoption somewhat restrained.
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> That said, Ruby does include graphical extensions for using Gtk and  
> Fox. I've never looked at Fox but the Gtk toolkit is, while somewhat  
> primitive, eminently usable.
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> On Jan 5, 2006, at 12:32 PM, simonh wrote:
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>> this may be a daft question, but is it possible to create a widget
>> toolkit using a scripting language? I know that most are written in  C /
>> C++ (QT, fox, wx), also ncurses for terminal interfaces. Therefore, is
>> it impossible to do such a thing with ruby? Or is it just to much hard
>> work?
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>> Please can someone put my mind at rest and possibly give an
>> understandable explanation as to why it can't be done.
>>
>> many thanks
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