From: "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@...>
Date: 2001-10-19T23:16:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22745] RE:  Yet another thought on widget toolkits

> Is anybody acquainted with Borland Delphi/C++ Builder and its VCL
> (Visual Component Library), formerly only running on Windows?  When
> Kylix (Linux Delphi) was released, the VCL was renamed CLX and GPL'd.
> It uses native widgets on Windows and GTK on Linux, plus whatever
> extension one wants to write (in Object Pascal now, C++ when Kylix C++
> will be released for Linux as well).  It is strongly OO and
> event-oriented.  It looks like a good set of native look and feel,
> efficiency, cross-platform use, and ruby-ness (unless I am forgetting
> some very big cons).

IIRC, the VCL still exists for native Windows. If you use CLX, then your app
is Windows/Linux. And CLX uses QT, not GTK.

Chris