From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T21:11:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about GUI API for Ruby

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:57:03 +0100, Jacek Olszak <jacekolszak@o2.pl> wrote:

>
> Thanks for reply David!
>
> Fox can be very good.. I've read some docs on FXRuby site and shown that
> FreeRide is using it :)

I -have- been getting strange behaviour from it sometimes that occured to  
other people - dialogs opening with the top left corner being  
significantly off the screen. Might be dependent on how the computer is  
set up so do check for that when deploying the application.

>
> Wxruby can be good but for me documentation is the most important :)
> (and as you said there isn't a lot of docs for wxruby).

Usually, it's possible to make do with the primary wxWidgets  
documentation, but I haven't really used it that extensively to rule out  
subtle bugs / incompatibility issues. Also, the project entered the "long  
boring rewrite" phase a while ago, and there isn't much apparent activity  
the like of public releases. I favor it mostly because of the use of  
native widgets (somewhat of a religious issue), and usually swallow the  
bitter pill and do my GUI work in wxPython. I wouldn't quite recommend  
wxruby for production code yet.

David Vallner