From: MikkelFJ <mikkelj-anti-spam@...1.dknet.dk>
Date: 2001-08-15T05:10:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19730] Re: General (GUI/license) questions


"Ryan Tarpine" <rtarpine@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:h9ee7.103440$EP6.26449816@news1.rdc2.pa.home.com...
> First:  Kero commented in the description of his new Ruby Agenda program
> "Ruby Agenda is written in Ruby with Tk bindings (which are in the default

Tk is nice for quick portable GUI's where niceness is not a priority.
GTK is not really the way to go on Windows. The only Ruby binding I've seen
that actually works well with windows is FxRuby. It's not exactly widely
distributed I belive, but it is very easy to install which counts for a lot.
I can't speak for the Unix side of the issue, but on Windows you just
download it - and then it runs. A lot smaller than a fullblown Tck/tk
download for windows. It runs out of the box like Tk does, but it is much
nicer.

Mikkel