From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2010-01-11T05:30:51+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby GUI debacle

Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> On 10.01.2010 18:21, Ruby Student wrote:
> 
>> If anyone knows an IDE where I can use drag&drop to create GUI appls
>> in Ruby/Jruby/IronRuby/AnyRuby, please let me know. I am willing to
>> purchase a commercial package, if available.
> 
> NetBeans. Monkeybars is the glue to use NetBeans' GUI builder in JRuby.

But know that you do not *have* to use Netbeans to make a UI for 
Monkeybars.  Monkeybars works by hooking into compiled Swing UI code. 
But you can also use inline Swing code to get the same thing.  That's 
the point of my Neurogami::SwingSet project, to make it easier to write 
Swing stuff in a text editor.  (It's true of Jimpanazee, but I don't 
recall if that code made it into Monkeybars.)

But if there's another tool preferred for creating the Swing UI layer, 
that should work fine too, just tell the app what file is to be used.


For myself, I use SwingSet for simple UI items (an "About" screen, or 
simple user input) and the Netbeans GUI editor for more sophisticated 
layouts.

Hard to beat Netbeans for that.


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