From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-07-25T23:14:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: GUI's and the Rouge, Part III (yes, finally) 1/2

On Thursday 25 July 2002 09:00 am, Martin Weber wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:52:10PM +0900, Albert Wagner wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 July 2002 08:41 am, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> > [..]
> >
> > > [..]
> > > Seriously, though, if there were a Ruby GUI tool that
> > > you could use to create another Excel -- *that* would
> > > be exciting.
> >
> > Of course.
>
> Pity we don't have tix for tk for ruby. [yeah, with tix,
> some customization and a few custom tk/tix compound
> widgets (that's after all what a toolkit a la tk is for:
> create the widgets you need, lazy bums :), you could do
> another excel - the spreadsheet ITSELF is a native tix widget
> btw]

Yeah, I know.  The lack of good bindings for tix drove me to build a table 
editor with TkText in Ruby.  TkText is a constant source of amazement to me.  
I note that GTK+2 ripped off TkText concepts to build their new text editor 
widget.
>
> -Martin