From: Matthew Borgeson <hibridmatthias@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T10:40:01+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI for a newbie

Matthew Borgeson wrote:
> Hello All-
> 
> I have taken up Ruby over the past year and have finally written 7
> applications for various functions for my job as a clinical pharmacist.
> 
> The problem I have here is that while my programs all work great, they
> are all CLI interface. In order to increase their palatability among my
> coworkers, however, I wish to add a GUI.
> 
> The question I have here is NOT which is the best for my needs. I have
> it nailed down to three based on the platforms and screenshots I have
> seen of their results:
> 
> Gtk (Would be nice on my Nokia n800 maemo)
> Qt (My preference)
> Tk (Seems to be the favorite of the Ruby folk)
> 
> My question is which would be the easiest to learn. While I want to use
> Qt (I just feel comfortable with its maturity)I am concerned by how hard
> it will be to learn, considering I have no C++ background.
> 
> Any guidance before I commit to learning one would be appreciated...
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Matthew F Borgeson

Well, I want to first thank you all for your opinions regarding my 
original post.

When I last posted, I said I was going to try both Qt and Tk and see 
which one was easier to get up and runnning with.

Three months later, after I purchased the QtRuby Friday PDF from the 
Pragmatic Programmers, I dove in to QtRuby. In one month's time, I was 
able to get the front end started and 2 of the 6 tabs in the program 
completed. The book did a nice job of walking through code line by line 
and I was able to take off from there. I would have to say the hardest 
part was getting used to the semantics with Qt as the widget classes 
used the double colon connectors; something I was not used to.

I have been having so much fun and so productive that I may not ever 
make it to try Tk; but I am on my way to where I need to go and am 
really happy.

I have seen other stumbling with the same question I posted in February 
and just wanted to share my experiences here with you all.

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