From: Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Date: 2006-12-07T09:16:40+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI programming for WinXP/Linux/OSX?

Tiago Pinto wrote:
> Hi Vince!,

  Hello !

  Well, first, you really should consider posting to ruby-talk rather
than directly to me. You'll get answers faster and better ;-). I'm ccing.

> I'm working on an application using Qt+Ruby and want to know if there
> is a good way to export my app. Since it is done, I want to distribute
> it on Macosx, Linux and Windows. Is there any way to package or
> include all the needed stuff without requiring the user to download
> and install Qt.

  This is quite a difficult thing to do. If you're talking about Qt3,
that will not be possible for windows unless you own a Qt3 license and
you can make arrangements with the authors of the Ruby bindings. For
Qt4, the question is still difficult. I guess the closest we can get to
that it to make a gem - that should be rather easy to install. You can
even try to package it along with your program.

  You could also give a try to Ruby2Exe to package your win32 version.
I'm not aware of anything similar for Linux or MacOS.

  But I don't have any experience in that domain. I remember however
that this question has been raised a couple of times on ruby-talk, I
just don't have time to dig the archives right now.

  Does anyone have an idea ?

	Vince


> On 9/26/06, Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> wrote:
>> Hello !
>>
>> > - it must run on WinXP and Linux, idally also on OSX
>> > - it must have a GUI preferably with the GUI's native widget set
>> > - it must allow scripting access to system resources with a modern and
>> > comfortable scripting language
>>
>> What you really need is Qtruby - it matches exactly your requirements.
>> Check
>> out
>>
>> http://rubyforge.org/projects/korundum/
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://trolltech.com
>>
>> There's two options:
>>
>> * use qtruby, which is based on Qt3 - pretty stable, but will not work on
>> WinXP unless you've got a license for Qt3 on WinXP boxes;
>> * use qt4-qtruby - pretty cool, based on Qt4, still some useability
>> glitches
>> but Richard Dale is working hard on them (and then, you can do
>> bug-reporting
>> and improve it for me as well ;-)...). And Qt4 is free on WinXP as
>> well, and
>> qt4-qtruby works there (according to forum posts).
>>
>> You should get Qt/Qt4 and it's documentation on Trolltech.
>>
>> All the code you write will work on MacOS, Linux and WinXP...
>>
>> Cheers !
>>
>> Vince, a Qt4 addict

-- 
Vincent Fourmond, PhD student
http://vincent.fourmond.neuf.fr/