From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2010-01-12T17:58:21+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby GUI debacle


On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:29 PM, Rob Saul wrote:

> Florian Gilcher wrote:
>> 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. 
> 
> This ability has been available for quite some time.  In fact, if you
> try NetBeans on OS X you will see it in action.  Try Googling 'java os x menu bar'.
> 
> Having looked at various "cross platform" GUI frameworks over the years
> I have yet to see one that pleases 100% of developers 100% of the time.
> 
> Ruby has a number of GUI framework hooks available.  Finding the one
> that works for you is the trick.  One has to be willing to invest some
> time in trying at least a couple.
> 
> 
> 	~Rob
> 
> 

As a funny sidenote: I found that out yesterday while searching for the way to do it with SWT ;).

I still prefer the SWT look and feel.

Regards,
Florian