From: John <john_ludlow@...>
Date: 2006-04-05T22:29:35+09:00
Subject: Re: is GUI a weak point?

John wrote:
> I haven't tried Gtk or wxRuby, but FxRuby (based on FOX GUI) is quite 
> good.  I find it to be easier to use than Ruby/Tk - for example, in 
> FxRuby, scrollbars come for free, there's a TreeList that's as easy to 
> use as any other language's tree view, and keyboard shortcuts (in a list 
> box, press 'b' and the selection should jump to the first item beginning 
> with 'b', that kind of thing) and mouse scroll wheels tend to work for 
> free.
> 
> One issue with Ruby is that there's no full all-singing-all-dancing IDE 
> which will do a lot of the hard work for you.  For example, C# guys 
> (including me when I'm not writing installations or programming Ruby) 
> get VS.NET or #Develop, both of which have form designers.  Since the 
> form designer works out all the positioning, it makes it easier for the 
> programmer.
> 
> However, since languages like Ruby don't have a full IDE (yet), you have 
> to do more manually.  To alleviate this, languages such as Ruby tend to 
> use GUI libraries that make this as simple as possible.  However, this 
> does not result in GUIs that look particularly nice, and .

and can be harder to implement.

Sorry about that!

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