From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2012-07-29T17:12:07+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI with ruby on windows

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Hi Jeremy,

Chiming in a long while after your message below...

On 16/5/2012 8:42 PM, Jeremy Walker wrote:
>
> I'm going to be slightly controversial here and ask why you want to 
> use Ruby to build a Window's GUI? There are lots of great reasons to 
> do so (it's a beautiful language, your GUI will probably be portable 
> among multiple OSs, the community is great, etc), and if it's purely 
> for a learning exercise, then brilliant. However, if you're creating a 
> Windows only, GUI-based production application, that needs to feel 
> natively to Windows, then, as a beginner, there are maybe easier 
> solutions. I'd personally recommend exploring C#.net and the 
> technologies around it. It's pretty simple and quick to learn, and 
> Visual Studio makes creating the Window's GUIs stupidly easy.
>

I normally use Embarcadero's C++ Builder for doing GUI work for Windows, 
but one of the reasons I am going through older posts about Windows GUI 
is because I have a bunch of Ruby scripts that do quite a few things, 
and some of the stuff would be easier if driven through a GUI.

Best Regards,
Mohit.
29/7/2012 | 3:04 PM.



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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Jeremy,<br>
      <br>
      Chiming in a long while after your message below...<br>
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      On 16/5/2012 8:42 PM, Jeremy Walker wrote:<br>
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        <div>I'm going to be slightly controversial here and ask why you
          want to use Ruby to build a Window's GUI? There are lots of
          great reasons to do so (it's a beautiful language, your GUI
          will probably be portable among multiple OSs, the community is
          great, etc), and if it's purely for a learning exercise, then
          brilliant. However, if you're creating a Windows only,
          GUI-based production application, that needs to feel natively
          to Windows, then, as a beginner, there are maybe easier
          solutions. I'd personally recommend exploring C#.net and the
          technologies around it. It's pretty simple and quick to learn,
          and Visual Studio makes creating the Window's GUIs stupidly
          easy.&nbsp;</div>
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    <br>
    I normally use Embarcadero's C++ Builder for doing GUI work for
    Windows, but one of the reasons I am going through older posts about
    Windows GUI is because I have a bunch of Ruby scripts that do quite
    a few things, and some of the stuff would be easier if driven
    through a GUI.<br>
    <br>
    Best Regards,<br>
    Mohit.<br>
    29/7/2012 | 3:04 PM.<br>
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