From: MikkelFJ <mikkelj-anti-spam@...1.dknet.dk>
Date: 2001-08-15T09:10:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19744] Re: General (GUI/license) questions


"Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson@resgen.com> wrote in message
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> "Ryan Tarpine" <rtarpine@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> Which leads to the inevitable conclusion (inevitable, since I'm the one
> writing this post). FXRuby (http://fxruby.sourceforge.net) works pretty
well

What is the status of WxWindows by the way? It recently caugth my attention
but I have never tried it out. It looks like a major project to install and
distribute, but easy to use.

Fox and WxWindows seems to be the two best general purpose cross platform
GUI toolkits available. WxWindows runs on top of GTK (and thereby has
massive support) as well as on Motif and Windows. It targets each platform
natively, whereas Fox via its more lowlevel approach makes it easier to
create new widgets. In my experience, serious GUI development almost always
benefits from modifying existing widgets in order to somehow suit a
particular task.

Mikkel