From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2001-08-15T21:11:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19771] Re: The GUI poll is in, and the results are surprising

"Andy Elvey" <andy.elvey@paradise.net.nz> writes:

> Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote in message
> news:m2zo91kiz5.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com...
> >
> > I let this poll run for a while, just to see if the early results were
> > anomalous.  They weren't.  The results stayed consistent (and
> > surprising) for the duration of the poll:
> >
> >      I prefer writing Ruby GUIs using:
> >
> >           fox        29.01 % (76)
> >           gtk        26.72 % (70)
> >           a pencil   19.08 % (50)
> >           tk         11.83 % (31)
> >           qt         12.60 % (33)
> >           hybris      0.76 % (2)
> >
> >      Total votes: 262
> >
> > Fox, the new kid on the block, consistently held a narrow lead over
> > GTK.  Surprisingly, Tk never really made a showing, despite being
> > bundled with Ruby on both Unix and in the Installshield Windows
> > distribution.
> >
>   Mmm ....  I'm not surprised that Tk is an "also-ran" here.  I've always
> found it to be one of the ugliest toolkits around (in spite of "ease of
> use" ) , and so I'm kinda depressed that Ruby (and Python , for that matter)
> use Tk/Tkinter as their standard GUI toolkit .... :-/

I hate Tk, but have chosen it for DataVision (my new database report tool
project). The reason: Tk comes with Ruby on all platforms.

It's bad enought that I have to learn Tk. The lazy programmer in me is not
sure that he want to learn Yet Another GUI Library.

Jim
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