From: Meinrad Recheis <meinrad.recheis@...>
Date: 2007-01-26T20:24:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommendation for Simple GUI Development

On 1/26/07, Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
foxGUIb is a quick and simple way of creating fxruby gui code. fxruby
/ fox has all the things you need, but the look and feel is very rigid
and windows 2000 like.
annother possibility is the excellent Java Swing Toolkit. but then you
need to go with JRuby.

-- henon (author of foxGUIb)