From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-12-20T23:12:27+09:00
Subject: Re: best GUI toolkit for windows/OSX

e deleflie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm developing a simple little application (with a GUI) in Ruby (newb
> status). Needs to run windows and OSX (and later on linux).
> 
> So far I've been building it with tcl tk ... but I'm wondering if there's an
> other GUI toolkit that is perhaps smaller and easier to bundle (cross
> platform) with my little app?
> 
> Etienne
> 

My recollection is that wxWindows is the closest to "native" look and 
feel of all the GUI toolkits that Ruby supports. As far as other factors 
-- ease of use, compactness, etc. -- I think they're all pretty much the 
same, although for "professional" GUI application development, I think 
Qt is the best-engineered and Gtk+ is a very close second.

That said, if Tcl/Tk is working for you, I wouldn't spend a lot of 
energy looking at the others. There's a cost in switching, and as far as 
I know there aren't any "translators" from one tool kit to another. They 
all have different application design frameworks, different interfaces, 
and varying levels of documentation and support for the Ruby bindings.