From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2010-01-13T01:14:15+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby GUI debacle

On 12/1/2010 9:35 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
>    
>> On 12/1/2010 1:34 AM, Ruby Student wrote:
>>      
>>> nice people, like yourself. I thought this was an "innocent" question!
>>>
>>> You know, one of the biggest problem I find with the majorities of the
>>> GUI toolkits for Ruby is the placing of the widgets where you want
>>> them.
>>> Hopefully a drag&drop will let me, visually, place the damn things
>>> where I want them without having to experiment much!
>>>
>>>        
>> For the fourth time, try WideStudio :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mohit.
>> 12/1/2010 | 1:52 AM.
>>      
> The website (which is a bit of a mess) seems to say that on Mac OS X, it
> only works with X11, not Aqua.  Is this correct?  If so, it's not really
> a good solution for cross-platform end-user apps.  Other than that,
> though, it looks very interesting.
>    
I don't have a Mac (never had), so I don't know for sure - it may be the 
case that it doesn't support Aqua!  I believe the developer doesn't 
really work on a Mac either - though I may be wrong.

Cheers,
Mohit.
13/1/2010 | 12:14 AM.