From: Roman Hausner Date: 2006-09-26T16:58:07+09:00 Subject: GUI programming for WinXP/Linux/OSX? I am planning a project that has the following main requirements: - it must run on WinXP and Linux, idally also on OSX - it must have a GUI preferably with the GUI's native widget set - it must allow scripting access to system resources with a modern and comfortable scripting language The last point is what made me consider Ruby: I'd love to have Ruby as the embedded scripting language here. However, I cannot see how to solve the GUI issue, but maybe I have missed some things. Can anyone tell me if there is a common (portable) way to easily implement a GUI, no matter what the underlying framework and system is? I am thinking some kind of GUI abstraction layer for using the same API to control the GUI, no matter what the underlying system and graphical framework is. Is this possible with Ruby? Any experiences to share? As I see it my only alternative is Java, especially as version 6 will seemingly come with nature widget support and support for scripting. If at all possible, I would prefer to do it all in Ruby though. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.