From: Eli Green Date: 2001-10-26T08:27:54+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:23377] Re: GUI / was [ANN] RubyInRubyParser 0.1-pre-alpha from markus liedl on 2001-10-26 at 08:01:48: > Eli: > > I'd be willing to take a stab at doing something like this using SDL or > > some > > other platform-neutral framebuffer lib. Anybody else interested? > > I've never seen X11 server for MS windows, but there are some. > Acting as an X11 client, makes your application separted of all kind of > pixle drawing. > > Tell me why you think this would be a bader solution! Well, it adds to the requirements a fair bit ... people have to install an X server for this sort of thing to work. SDL is implemented as a wrapper library to the OS's native graphics drawing system, and the DLL can be distributed along with the library. It just seems like a lot of unnecessary overhead. SDL works under X, and is definitely smaller than an entire X server (I would imagine). > Give me an english lesson: 'take a stab' > May that mean, that you just want to examine things and don't care about the > result? Exactly what Avi Bryant and Todd Gillespie said. -- This will all be on the test. Please study it. Eli Green Codedogs