From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-07-30T03:09:26+09:00
Subject: RE: wxWindows for ruby

> Lyle Johnson wrote:
> > 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.

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 08:46, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> It is also worth noting that the SWT (from the Eclipse project) also takes
> the approach of wrapping naive widgets (enhancing them where needed).

just to throw my two cents into the pot. i think ultimatly lyle is on
target. your going to have a much better toolkit in the end with one
that is self-contained rather than with one that has to translate into a
variety of others. its just like any translation, something is always
lost in the process and it takes longer. nothing you can do about it.
but even so, i do not think anyone has ever done the the self-contained
deal wholly right. you can't push a single look and feel. just won't
fly. and people will look elsewhere if they can. now if the FOX people
got smart, they would jump on getting a Themes and Behaviors Manager
going like i described in a previous post. Then FOX would truly rock!
But until then, i'm looking at getting a binding to wxWindows instead.
At least that's a direction i can take such that i know eventually i
will have native intergration.

~transami