From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-01-11T08:51:23+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby GUI debacle

On Sunday 10 January 2010 12:44:34 pm Reid Thompson wrote:
> On 1/10/2010 12:21 PM, Ruby Student wrote:
> > As you can read I have been looking for a "simple" GUI environment
> > where I don't have to "draw" the widgets. I would like to get a GUI
> > programming environment where I can drag&drop widgets (diaglog box,
> > drop-down list, Etc., Etc.) on a pane and then just worry about the
> > programming part to handle or react to the events generated by the
> > widgets! I hate to say, but something like VB.
> 
> Look at using glade to generate the interface, the code the callbacks

Or use QTDesigner.

Point is, this isn't a Ruby problem, this is a GUI library problem. You'd have 
the same problem in C++, C#, Python, Perl, C, OCaml, Lisp, Haskell, Erlang, 
EcmaScript (JavaScript), Java, Scheme, Clojure....

The problem is mostly that you don't know what you're looking for. You're 
looking for something called a "GUI Designer". Google it, and you'll find 
dozens.

Once you can design a GUI for a library, in its native language, you can 
probably work with it in Ruby. That process is complex enough that you should 
probably follow a tutorial, rather than figure it out yourself, unless you 
already know C/C++.

So, here's a tutorial:

http://www.arachnoid.com/ruby/RubyGUIProject/