From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2011-11-02T16:26:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Good GUI for buisness focused application

On 1 November 2011 07:28, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 31, 8:40 pm, Jaxxa <jaxx...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What would be a good Graphical User interface for use with a buisness
>> focused application.
>> I have not much experiance with Ruby and am looking at ways to create a GUI
>> diplaying tabs, tables and all the boring interface stuff.
>>
>> I had a look at Shoes and FXRuby.
>> Shoes did not apear to have the functionality that I wanted and seamed more
>> suited to games and playing around rather than a more profeshional
>> interfaces.
>> FXRuby looks like it will work well with what I need to do, but I am a
>> little heasatent to use it because it has not been updated in years.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone had any advice on a more updated GUI framework or
>> if you had any problems you had with FXRuby.
>
> Who is the app for? If it will just be used by Windows users than I
> believe there are binding for Windows UI.
>
> If you want cross platform then seriously consider using web
> technologies. Even if the user has to run a servlet in the background
> it's a pretty good way to go.

+1

Web can do tabs and tables all right, and when there is no
hard-realtime requirement it would work all right for most
applications displaying some random gobs of data.

You can save a web page and load it into Excel if you wanted, too
(provided the page is designed for that and is not too complex for
Excel to understand).

Even if the primary platform is Windows people can also peek into the
app from their phones or whatnot.

No installation required whatsoever, easiest deployment ever.

And when it's web you can change your browser and your web server and
it's still web.

When you have GTK or TK application and something in the toolkit does
not work quite right it's hard to change the toolkit.

Thanks

Michal