From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T03:42:27+09:00
Subject: Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes?

On 12/17/06, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On Sun, 2006-17-12 at 10:09 +0900, Suraj Kurapati wrote:
>  Tk is wonderful! It's really simple to manipulate widgets and graphics
> in the way you'd expect. IMHO, Tk is the Ruby of GUI toolkits.
>
>
>  I'm with David here.  Tk isn't the Ruby of GUI toolkits.  But I diverge sharply from him after that.  He says it's the PHP of GUI toolkits.  I say it's the GWBASIC of them.
>
>  Tk-based GUIs are typically so fscking useless that I'd rather use the CLI and ed over an
> app coded in Tk.

Apart from the TkCanvas, which is utterly brilliant. How many other
toolkits give you a vector-oriented canvas, in which you can draw
graphical objects that respond to click events, for free?

martin