From: Christopher Sawtell Date: 2001-10-16T04:58:29+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22587] Re: Learn Ruby/Tk or Ruby/GTK? On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:03, you wrote: > --- dAHen wrote: > > And my first question is still there... > > Do you recommend Tk or GTK? > > Between those two, I think you can decide based on whether > you like (or hate) two aspects of Tk: 1) the api, and 2) > the look-and-feel of the apps themselves. [ ... ] Another possibility you might like to consider is the FOX <--> Ruby kit. The author, who actually reads and answers e-mail, claims it is not really ready for the prime time yet, but so far it works for me. Here is the README:- I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and growing, collection of widgets, and provides state-of-the-art facilities such as drag-and-drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3-D graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and user- convenience features such as status line help and tooltips. The FXRuby home page is here: http://fxruby.sourceforge.net and the source tarball can be downloaded here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-0.99.174.tar.gz A pre-compiled binary for Windows, compatible with the Cygwin-based versions of Ruby 1.6.x for Windows, is also available for download here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-0.99.174-win32.zip This is very much an alpha-quality release, although the basic functionality is all in place. Please see the comments on the home page concerning the problems with this release, or the change log to see what has changed since the previous release. Note that this release of FXRuby depends on FOX version 0.99.174, which can be downloaded from here: ftp://ftp.cfdrc.com/pub/FOX/fox-0.99.174.tar.gz Please feel free to send me any questions or comments, and watch this space for future announcements! Lyle