From: Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@...>
Date: 2001-10-17T13:00:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22662] Re: What about FLTK?

--- Mark Hahn <mchahn@facelink.com> wrote:
> I don't know what FLTK 2.0 will offer, but I have been
> considering implementing some standard Java layout
managers in 
> Ruby and even one new exotic manager I've been
considering.  

That would be great!

> Since I can position any widget using absolute
coordinates, I 
> assume I should have no problem at the FLTK interface
doing 
> this, right? 

Right...as long as you can figure out how to handle the
negotiation of desired/max/min size. I'm not familiar with
layout manager internals. Actually, if Ruby/FLTK could just
have hbox and vbox as powerful as GTK, I'd be happy for my
own uses.

> In effect, I want to move some of the FLTK functionality
up into 
> Ruby.

That also sounds great. I started to do that a bit with the
ListBox class (but it's not a very good start, I'm afraid).


> The toolkit I'd REALLY like to have is a all-Ruby gui
> like Swing in Java  (but simpler and keeping with Ruby 
> philosophy).  I would imagine one could port another
framework 
> into Ruby in a short period of time.

Me too! One of my thoughts was that FLTK was cross platform
and pretty low level, so it might be a good starting point.
You're going to have to have _some_ library of C/C++ code
below Ruby, so you 
could just rely on the primative parts of FLTK and roll the
rest yourself. I would be interested in contributing to
such a project.

Kevin


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