From: Alex Young Date: 2006-12-22T20:02:50+09:00 Subject: Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? Martin DeMello wrote: > On 12/17/06, Michael T. Richter 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? WPF? I've been increasingly interested by what's going on in Ruby.NET, for exactly that reason. -- Alex