From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2007-01-26T16:02:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommendation for Simple GUI Development

On 26/01/07, billbell52 <billb@ti.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a quick easy GUI development capability that runs on
> both Windows and Linux.  Today, I am using Excel's VBA to create a GUI
> and using that to control running the Ruby scipts.   It is a simple 20
> minute job to create a GUI to control different Ruby scripts and I use
> Excel to report back results.   I would like to have the same solution
> that runs on Linux and Windows.  I thought I would use QT4 from
> Trolltech.  They have a nice GUI  development environment that allows
> you to quickly develop a GUI but I cannot find any Ruby GEM that binds
> QT4 to Ruby on the PC - so no go.  I looked at some other solutions but
> all of the them seem to required a lot of development time to create
> the GUI.
>
> I need widgets like a tabbed panel, listbox, combobox, optionbox,
> checkbox, textbox
>
> Any other recommendations?
>
>
>

FoxGUIB - http://fox-tool.rubyforge.org/. It let's you build a FOX
based GUI and it's written in Ruby. It works for me on Windows,
haven't tried it on Linux.

Farrel