From: Mark Somerville <mark@...>
Date: 2006-02-10T20:44:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Yahoo! Widgets (JavaScript) - do we have a anything like this?

On Friday 10 February 2006 10:04, Mark Somerville wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 01:52, David Vallner wrote:
> > Dňa Piatok 10 Február 2006 00:34 tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com napísal:
> > > Well, I'll reply in the middle of the paragraph. I usually think about
> > > ruby bindings; how much they are complete and are they stable the
> > > bindings are compared to others. Qt might be the best toolkit to use,
> > > however the ruby bindings are not frozen yet, hence I don't want to use
> > > it until rdale stops modifying how the toolkit works. He just made the
> > > signal/slots similar to how rails works. GTK is very stable and one of
> > > the two top best at stability. Tk is the most stable of course, being
> > > around longer since all of the other toolkits, and now in 1.8.4 having
> > > the method to switch all the tk methods to use tile so the developer
> > > doesn't have to call on tile widgets. FOX is okay, but when you don't
> > > call methods right, you end up with crappy code because you can't find
> > > which method you called wrong when you have a 5000 line script. I don't
> > > write line by line, execute as I type each out like a new programmer, I
> > > write half complete programs before I start testing.
> >
> > Hmm, how "rubyish" are the Qt and GTK bindings anyway? I have personally
> > a HUGE pet peeve against ever writing using for example #set_foo in a
> > ruby binding instead of #foo= (wxRuby);
>
> That particular thing is solved for Qt4 -
> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1686
>
> > goes for camelCase in method names, or
> > Hungarian notation in class names instead of using module namespaces
> > (FOX). Even if there's probably very good reasons for both of those, and
> > if not, possibly very unreasonable to change them now, my mind still has
> > problems switching between naming conventions mid-script.
>
> But the camelCase is still there.

I think I was wrong. I haven't tried it out, but the README from the latest 
release (and perhaps earlier, not sure) suggests that you can use underscores 
or camelCase.

Cool.

Mark

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> Mark
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> > David Vallner