From: Skeets Date: 2006-08-07T14:45:11+09:00 Subject: Re: GUI Harold Hausman wrote: > On 8/6/06, Tom de Grunt wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > Though a lot has already been asked about GUI's and Ruby here another question. > > Does anyone know of a platform independent GUI solution, which uses XML > > (XUL, UIML, or even XAML)? > > > > To show you some research has been done, I'm not talking about: > > wxRuby, FXRuby, RubyQT or Tk. > > > > I'm more talking about: > > Rouge GUI, XUL (XPFE) or XAML > > > > I even came as far as: RubyCLR - http://thinkchiro.com/ (but that's > > just for Windows?). > > > > Regards, > > Tom > > > > Hi Tom, > > You might want to look into Gtk2, Gnome2, and Glade. I've been having > good luck with Gtk recently (after mucking with tk and fox in the > past) and it looks like Glade is an xml specification for building > Gtk2 GUI's... Or maybe a piece of software used to design Gtk2 GUI's > which happens to use XML? > > Just thought I'd mention it since it wasn't on your list. > > Regards, > -Harold Harold, i'm working on a pretty simple app that that needs to get 4 or 5 pieces of information from my user so it can run. i'm thinking about applying rubyscript2exe so i can get it in executable form for windows. the script2exeauthor recommends wxruby so that the library can be compiled into the exe file. this is great, but there isn't much info on wxruby and the tutorial didn't seem to play nice with this newb. glade looks interesting. can you compare it to wxruby? is it really that much of a hassle to link to the library? are glade and rubyscript2exe compatible? tia...