From: Christian Boos <cboos@...>
Date: 2002-05-17T16:02:19+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby/Qt


Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean O'Dell [mailto:sean@BUHBYESPAMcelsoft.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 9:02 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Ruby/Qt
> 
> 
> Is anyone using it?  How is it working out for you?
> 

Quite well, but of course, there are some limitations in 
the current version. Not as good as SIP/PyQt for instance
(mainly it is difficult to override constructors and
virtual methods).


> I've done a lot of Windows GUI work, but I'm a newcomer to Linux GUI 
> programming (haven't actually done a single one yet).  I'm pretty sold 
> on going with Qt from here on out, but before I had considered Qt, I was 
> already considering doing my basic GUI work (the support level I call 
> it) in Ruby, and calling C++ to do the core work.  Actually, I was going 
> start the application in C++, then load the Ruby bindings to handle the 
> fluffy user stuff (windows, menus, help, etc.), then on certain events, 
> the Ruby code would sometimes call back into the C++ application.
> 
> My reasoning is, once the application framework is set up, doing things 
> this way would allow me to protoype new features quickly and then I 
> could move my Ruby prototype code back into C++ for efficiency and 
> better integration with the rest of the application.
> 

You can safely mix C++ and Ruby, for sure.

> I did this a lot with Delphi, putting most of the application into a 
> DLL, using Delphi for fluffy user stuff and prototyping, but moving code 
> into the DLL as I went along.  Worked pretty well.
> 
> Now I'm considering using Ruby for that user/prototyping part.  One of 
> my requirements/goals is that the UI toolkit go between X11 and Windows 
> fairly easily.  Maybe even Mac OS X.  Qt seems like the best route to 
> try that.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts on Ruby/Qt?
> 

The bindings for Qt3 are still not available, but several people are
working on it.

Check also the Ruby/Qt group on Yahoo.

-- Christian