From: Victor Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2006-04-06T03:47:02+09:00
Subject: Re: is GUI a weak point?

> > For example, the tk toolkit only provides very primitive ways of
> > arranging elements. I am not sure if the ruby library provides some
> > more complex layouts.  But with tk alone it may be quite hard to
> > create a dialog with different kinds of elements that won't make the
> > users run away :)
> 
> Layout options in Tk and most GUI toolkits are much less primitive
> than HTML layout.

BTW, I'm now working on Ruby wrapper for great HTMLayout library
(http://terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/).

HTMLayout is html-based layouting engine, which has standard-simple widgets
(edit, checkbox, combod...) and allows to create new widgets in plain HTML.
The engine is small and fast and doesn't relies on IE, or Gecko, or
something else. As for now, it is working on Windows only (Mac planned, *nix
questionnable) and is free for non-commercial use.

I am planning to publish my Ruby wrapper for HTMLayout (wrapper is codenamed
HTMR) on rubyforge IF there would be interest to such project.


> R. Mark Volkmann
> Object Computing, Inc.

Victor.