From: David Vallner Date: 2006-01-16T09:18:30+09:00 Subject: Re: ANN: RubyCLR first drop On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:06:43 +0100, Wilson Bilkovich wrote: > On 1/15/06, David Vallner wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:42:11 +0100, Wilson Bilkovich >> wrote: >> >> > On 1/13/06, John Lam wrote: >> > >> > How crazy would I have to be to try making a Windows Forms GUI app >> using >> > this? >> > >> > Looks like fun, either way. >> > >> >> >> Actually, I already managed to call .NET ArrayLists via Win32OLE. It >> doesn't get (much) crazier. >> >> Why would you want to use WinForms anyway? It's such a horrible terrible >> clumsy GUI toolkit anyway. >> > I'm looking for the ability to write GUI apps in Ruby, without any of > the deployment difficulties associated with 'non-standard' toolkits. > I probably just need to get better at packaging working subsets of the > full Ruby install on Windows, though. I was starting to think that > .NET was an easier prerequisite than "Ruby, GTK+, and these particular > environment variables." > Your post reminded me how bad parts of WinForms are, though. Heh. > Well, someone did point my attention at a binary ruby-gtk, so if that has GTK bundled along, things might get less insane in first-time deployment. David Vallner