From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-07-30T04:01:38+09:00
Subject: RE: wxWindows for ruby

Tom Sawyer wrote:
>
> 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.

Probably true.

> 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!

I do like FOX -- its fairly clean and lean. Although, my top addition to FOX
would be internationalization support.

> 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

Curt