From: Roman Hausner Date: 2006-09-26T19:23:59+09:00 Subject: Re: GUI programming for WinXP/Linux/OSX? mmmkay ... :) Thank you all for your valuable answers! As far as I can see everyone has their own preference here. This is probably partly due to prior experience with a framework or the fact that a certain framework was chosen. As of now, the following choices seem to be available: = Tk: comes with Ruby, so should be easy to deploy. = Qt = GTK = JRuby plus some Java GUI, preferably SWT = It seems there is also FXRuby (http://www.fxruby.org/) (non-native widgetset). Does anyone know of some objective comparisons of these approaches? Especially with regard to learning curve, stability, integration with Ruby, interactive GUI design, and ease of deployment? As I said, I am new to GUI programming, so this all looks a bit intimidating at the moment. I probably will dig a bit into JRuby -- I guess this will make availbale a lot of Java library functions to a Ruby-like language -- and I guess, also take away all non-Ruby-only packages and extensions from the Ruby side. But having the existing set of Java libraries available together with Ruby as a programming and scripting language does sound very inviting indeed. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.