From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-07-29T23:46:50+09:00
Subject: RE: wxWindows for ruby

Lyle Johnson wrote:
>
> But it should be no surprise that wxWindows looks "much more native",
> since it's just a wrapper over some other widget toolkit. For example,
> if you're using wxGTK, you're using wxWindows, layered on top of GTK,
> layered on top of X. Similar story for wxMotif and whatever they do for
> the other ports of wxWindows.
>
> FOX *intentionally* takes the approach of relying only on low-level
> system facilities and *not* wrapping the native GUI toolkits. It's an
> approach similar to that taken by Swing, Qt and other modern GUI
> toolkits. For more words on the "Goals & Approach" of FOX, see:
>
> 	http://www.fox-toolkit.org/goals.html
>
> It is interesting to note that the next generation of wxWindows (the
> wxUniversal project) has also adopted this approach.

It is also worth noting that the SWT (from the Eclipse project) also takes
the approach of wrapping naive widgets (enhancing them where needed).

Curt