From: Scott Weeks <weeksie@...>
Date: 2006-02-18T14:21:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Desktop apps written in Ruby?

Why not just build the front end of the app in a windows language 
(C++,VB,...) and then expose the APIs so that you can build the 
business logic in Ruby?

Honestly as good as Ruby is for so many things it's not the language to 
be building GUI's in. TK and QT etc... always feel clunky compared to 
native windows or mac apps. I know there's a Ruby- Objective C bridge 
for the Mac but I don't know what's available for windows.


On 18/02/2006, at 3:29 PM, tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com wrote:

> On Saturday 18 February 2006 01:08 pm, petermichaux@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply. From that QTRuby link "to create cross-platform
>> GUI applications for Linux and OS X in Ruby". Unfortunately I will 
>> need
>> to support Windows XP. Sounds like QTRuby can't do that. True?
>>
>> Peter
>
> Unfortunately, there isn't a stable windows build, they've been 
> working on it.
> I believe you should just use ruby-gtk, or ruby/tk(with tile. makes 
> native
> widgets with tk) More information about Tile in the following email to
> ruby-talk.
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/180329
>
> I described just about all the important facts about Tk, and would be 
> an
> excellent choice if you can learn to use the API efficiently.
>
> I've used FOX, and even used fxruby for a very long time. There are 
> great
> downfalls which made me use another toolkit. FOX is useless to me for 
> having
> no decent UTF support, even though the support is slowly coming along.
> Ruby/GTK2 would be a good solution, especially if you're going to run 
> the
> applications on unix, scim-gtk2-immodule is _very_ useful. I use 
> GNOME, so
> creating GTK/GNOME based apps over Tk is a plus for me.
>
> Tsume
>
>
>