From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-10-03T13:51:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21983] Re: Ruby Xlib wrapper


On 3 Oct 2001, Kero van Gelder wrote:
> derek@hipgraphics.com wrote:
>> I just released the first working version of my SWIG based Xlib wrapper
>> for Ruby. It does not attempt to create a higher-level interface,
>> rather it gives a more-or-less one-to-one mapping from Xlib calls
>> to Ruby methods and objects. The home page for the project can be
>> found at: <http://ruby-xlib-wrap.sourceforge.net/>.
>That's the second, I believe :)
>I am considering writing my own (third...), but I would be interested

There are already three of them:
	ruby-xlib by moriq
	RubyX11 by matju
	ruby-xlib-wrap by derek

The first one is a xlib wrapper with a single-display limitation, a
object-oriented interface, and incomplete coverage of X11's features.

The second one is a X11 client protocol implementation in pure ruby, with
an object-oriented interface; it is fully reflexive, fully reusable,
extremely compact, more abstract; it is also closer to completeness, very
slow, and buggy.

> flexible Ruby-GUI-Toolkit, eventually.

I have such a project but it's somewhat latent now. I will revive it if
someone shows some interest in it. It's in lib/hybris on the main
repository. (no release yet)

>Ruby can provide those parts to a simple, native common subset of
>various graphical environments.

(Just to clarify things I don't want to wrap any existing GUI toolkit.)

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