From: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@...>
Date: 2001-10-25T09:28:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23243] Re: Ruby extension wishlist

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:40, Robert Feldt wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > Seeing as you have asked for ideas, what I would _really_ like to see,
> > but just do not have the skills to do much about it myself, except for
> > testing, is an interactive window creation system. Something similar to
> > the vtcl system for Tck/Tk would be wonderful. If the window widget
> > system could be FOX that would be just niverna.
>
> Do you mean a GUI builder (something like FoxPilot
> http://www.scrypt.net/~celer/foxpilot/ or Fox Dialog editor
> http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~mwelch/dlgedit/introduction.html) or is
> vtcl something different?

From looking at these pages, but not hands on experience, vtcl would appear, 
in principle anyway, to be very like FoxPilot. A RubyFoxPilot would be just 
_wonderful_ because it would make the whole exercise so much simpler.

Thanks for the tips; I'll be getting FoxPilot to have a play.
From the www page it seems that Fox Dialog is 'resting'.

btw, the vtcl home-page is at:-

http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/