From: Sean Bryant <sean@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T00:34:15+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI programming for WinXP/Linux/OSX?

Reid Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 16:58 +0900, Roman Hausner wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> see also http://wxwidgets.org/about/screensh.htm 
> 
My vote goes for wxWidgets. Which there are ruby bindings I believe. 
wxWidgets translate to native bindings. Or at least they should.
Check out their site: http://www.wxwidgets.org/

Ruby bindings: http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl