From: Kero van Gelder <kero@...4050.upc-d.chello.nl>
Date: 2001-10-27T17:45:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23610] Re: Cross-platform GUI wrapper (for Python)

> Kevin Smith wrote:
> 
> > I suspect it will be difficult for it to support any really
> > cool native widgets. But the ability to get a (simple)
> > native look on any platform with just one set of app code
> > is pretty sweet.
> > 
> > If they can do it in Python, it should be a breeze in Ruby,
> > right?
> 
> I suspect that this will have about as much success as AWT for Java did, 
> since it does about the same thing.  AWT could have been implemented much 
> better, but I don't think it would have made any difference.

Gotcha.
That's why the high-level stuf should be done in Ruby. A file browser is
built from a set of small widgets, everybody can write one if those
small blocks are available.

The main question for me, at this moment, is how small the
widgets/building blocks need to be. I am not building on a toolkit,
but on X. Building on a WinApi or ncurses should be possible.

Just one problem: I don't have Win, Mac or other GUI-environment
around. Bit difficult this way for me to find a common subset --or a
GOOD common subset-- to build upon.

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