From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T07:06:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Freeride, FXRuby, FXScintilla, etc. (Includes [Fwd: [fxscintilla-users] ANNOUNCE: FXScintilla 1.71 and stopping])

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 1. Does Freeride have to use FXRuby? How difficult would it be to port
> to, say, WXRuby?
>=20

Cue GUI toolkit holy war.

For what it's worth, I'd second that port. FOX is a GUI toolkit that
gets on my nerves in too many ways to count - from how "crossplatform"
means "looks like Windows 95 everywhere" to how it relentlessly insists
on opening windows partially off screen by default. (Before anyone gets
around to it: setting absolute coordinates is only very mildly less
evil, you're bound to hit a repositioned task bar / equivalent.)

I'd put my money on Gtk rather than WxRuby, what with the latter only
not crawling its way out of a major -ish rewrite; even if Wx gives a
little better results on Windowsen (give or take Macs, I've heard wildly
varied stories on how Unix-borne stuff like X and Gtk works there).

David Vallner


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