From: Dave Baldwin <dave.baldwin@3dlabs.com>
Date: 2006-09-26T23:23:13+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI programming for WinXP/Linux/OSX?


On 26 Sep 2006, at 15:02, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
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>
> The app I'm building will have a Dia/Visio/XFig/Inkscape-like "drag  
> and drop shapes onto a canvas" GUI, but not a full diagramming  
> package. I've actually considered using one of the open-source  
> diagramming packages as a front end but I haven't found one that's  
> Ruby-scriptable -- Python and Guile/Scheme appear to be the  
> scripting languages of choice for such codes. :( If I go this way  
> I'll have to have the diagramming package export XML or SVG and  
> have the Ruby program execute it.
>

Google sketchup is a free drawing app that uses Ruby for plugins and  
general extensions.  It is available for OSX and Windows, but not  
Linux, so may not be of interest to you.

Dave.


> Hmmm ... has anyone built a "GUI" using ruby-rsvg?
>
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