From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@...>
Date: 2001-08-15T07:57:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19740] Re: General (GUI/license) questions

> The problem is that Tk by itself is a little dated. It's missing a lot of
> popular modern GUI widgets, like tree lists and spreadsheet-like tables. To
> be sure, if you download & install the Tix extensions for Tk, and then
> build & install the Ruby extension module that provides an interface to
> Tix, and whatever other incantations you have to go through, you'll end up
> with a better-looking GUI. I could probably pull off this installation
> under Linux, but I'd hate to have to figure out how to make this work under
> Windows ;)

Being a Tix user myself, I'll try that under (Net)BSD. Some fine grained 
issues always seem to appear between linux <-> bsd (Of course there is a 
remapping of syscalls costing you very very little for a binary emulation, 
but of course a native thing rocks;) - tix itself works fine for me)

> Which leads to the inevitable conclusion (inevitable, since I'm the one
> writing this post). FXRuby (http://fxruby.sourceforge.net) works pretty
> well on both Windows and Linux.

Will check that out

Martin Weber