From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T20:45:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about GUI API for Ruby

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:37:35 +0100, Jacek Olszak <jacekolszak@o2.pl> wrote:

> Hi... currently I'm developing a small gui application. I don't know
> which API for gui creating should I use. I've tried Tk only. For me it
> is quite good (but not so many examples, tutorials is available on the
> net). I'm looking for an API, in which I'll be able to create text
> viever widgets which supports different colors, fonts and styles in one
> widget.
>
> Please help...
> Jacek
>


A very frequently used toolkit is FOX. I have certain issues with the  
toolkit, religious and from personal observation of certain persistent  
quirks, but at any rate, it's indeed fast, mature, and easy to use /  
deploy. It seems to feature a styled text widget too.

Other ones you might want to consider is wxruby if you can handle with  
slightly lacking documentation, or a Gtk binding, which might be tricky  
getting to work on Windows machines.

David Vallner