From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-01-23T16:31:24+09:00
Subject: RE: RANT: Ruby GUI API

Rich Kilmer wrote:
> > They purposely designed the C level code to be a small as possible --
> > anything would *could* be implemented in SWT layer was. Because of this
> > there's probably nothing that is very Java specific in the C
> layer, and we
> > could probably use that code as-is (or with minimal changes).
>
> I don't know...this may be full of JNI crap.  It may not be simple to
> extract.

Good point.

> And I will repeat myself again, has anyone looked at
> the SWin/VRuby library.  It is Win32 only, but its author did do a
> minimal native (SWin) library and then a comprehensive ruby (VRuby)
> library.  You may be able to get ideas from what he implemented in
> V vs. Ruby for an idea on how best to separate the two.

Sounds like its worth looking at. I wish we had the bandwidth to do it
ourselves (I'm talking about the FreeRIDE project here) as its sounds very
interesting.

Curt