From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-01-23T03:49:24+09:00
Subject: RE: RANT: Ruby GUI API

Sean Russell wrote:

> >> In FreeRIDE we have picked the Fox toolkit *for now*, and we will have
> >> to provide some abstraction layer that allows us to make the GUI an
> >> interchangeable plug-in.
>
> Have you been discussing SWT, and how it relates to your goals?

I have to say the I really like the architecture and implementation of SWT
and I would love to be using it in FreeRIDE. We temporarily tabled the
discussion over GUI toolkits because:

1) There was no obvious choice that met all of our requirements.

2) We realized the bulk of our initial work was not heavily dependent on the
GUI toolkit, so there was no need to commit ourselves, yet.

3) We wanted to start moving forward and get hung up in an overly long
design phase, and  #2 let us defer this issue without too much worry.

In the meantime (as I tried to hint strongly before), if someone out there
wants to port SWG, FreeRIDE could be the first "customer"!

Curt