From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2010-01-11T16:23:37+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby GUI debacle

> 
> To me, Monkeybars looked perfect because it makes available the power
> of swing! But, here I am, still struggling!

What exactly is the "power of Swing"? The deal-breaker for me always was that there seems to be no possibility to create native-feel applications on OS X because I have yet to find a possibility to create menus in the menubar instead of the window. Swing does not know this concept and doesn't care. When it comes to UI, this can hardly be called "cross-platform", just because it "runs" on the target platform. Also, the windows somehow don't feel right, which may be because Swing only fakes a native look instead of using native iconography and widgets. The absence of complex widgets and the horribly complex API doesn't make things easier, as well.

I had good experiences with QT and QTDesigner, although I don't have any experience in using it with Ruby (i did C++ development).

Regards,
Florian