From: "Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-01-23T01:53:20+09:00
Subject: Re: RANT: Ruby GUI API



Sean Russell wrote:
> 
> Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
<snip>
> I'm more and more thinking that it would be Useful to have the Qt binding
> author, the FXRuby author, the FLTK author, and whoever else is working on
> a GUI toolkit for Ruby to talk about converging to a common API.  If those
> authors can all agree on common components of an API, and then write their
> bindings to that API, then the backend becomes swappable, and people can
> use whatever they choose.
> 
> The problem, of course, is that this is great in theory, but difficult in
> practice.  What happens when the Qt author wants an API element for his
> HTMLWidget, which the FLTK toolkit doesn't support?

Which is exactly why this remains a bad idea.
> 
> Still, it is an interesting idea.

Many bad ideas seem interesting.  Usually, when they are
recognized as bad ideas, people quit pushing for someone to
implement them.

> 
> --
> --- SER

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