From: tsumeruby@...
Date: 2006-01-09T08:28:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it possible to create a GUI/TUI toolkit using ruby?

On Sunday 08 January 2006 06:26 am, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 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


Qt widgets best looking? The GTK widgets look like candy as well when you use 
the theme daemon. I'll agree Qt id definitely best at being rock solid and 
having stable releases. The problem is the bindings for ruby are not as 
complete as wished for qtruby/4. Qtruby/3 bindings I never could compile a 
stable version on windows(which matters for making the most money from the 
world still). the Best current bindings at this time which are rock solid, 
stable, and the base toolkit as well are.. GTK, tk, and widestudio. These 
bindings *and* toolkits have 1) frozen library APIs 2) very decent interfaces 
to ruby 3) work everywhere *X11 on mac == works :)* 4) support multiple 
language encodings

Current status of the qtruby/4 bindings work on windows, but they are missing 
1) ui file loading, and 2) rdale is working on improving the signal/slots 
declarations if he hasn't done so already.

Tsume