From: Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney <devi.webmaster@...>
Date: 2008-01-18T00:12:57+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby or Shoes?

On Jan 17, 2008 8:49 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
I think the real decider for me would be portability -- will a
> Shoes app run on Windows or a Mac, or am I stuck with Linux?

As far as I know, a shoes app should work fine on any platform shoes
runs, which includes those you listed.

> That said, there are now *two* GUI toolkits with books behind them for
> Ruby, Qt and Fox. There still isn't a book for Tk, Gtk2 or WxWindows --
> you need to figure those out from books for other languages, or from the
> pieces in "The Ruby Way" and "The Ruby Cookbook".
>
> I don't know about the rest of you "hardy hacker types who like to
> figure stuff out for themselves", but in my own case, I have plenty of
> other things to figure out for myself, so *I* want a book for things
> that are already figured out! Use the source, Luke? Sometimes ... only
> sometimes.

Gtk and Wx have much better 'official' documentation than fxruby. I
don't know about nice ease-you-in tutorials like a book has, but the
API documentation is fairly good. Wx still has some glitches, but a
lot of those are getting fixed for the 1.9.3 release (any day now). As
far as I know, GTK work flawlessly and is fully documented. You'll
have to go back to the C docs if you want to work with some extra
OS-integration modules provided by ruby-gnome2, but the actual GUI
toolkit is GTK, and that's great and well-documented.

http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Ruby%2FGTK

Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney