From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-09-02T02:21:54+09:00
Subject: Re: What would you want in a Ruby GUI? - WAS: Re: Ruby jobs


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rich-

a quick overview of my endeavor: my main requirements being
cross-platform and then ease of development. of course it would also be
nice to get native integration, but i can forgo that if need be.

providing a gui to my ruby app began with html. i have to admit that i
like html. it is reasonably easy to mark up forms by hand, it is also
cross-compatable and allows for a great deal of versitility in page
layout, but speed and stateless opertation were problematic (javascript
helped some but was a coding and cross-platform pain). then there was
tk, problem there? lack of more capable widgets primarily, which
nullified its realatvie ease of coding and good docs. then FOX, which i
did not find easy to code, and had poor docs. considered GTK, but that's
linux only. and so forth and so on.

when you really get down to it though, the major hurdle is that lack of
rad tools, or at least some form of rad-like programmability. i have a
farily complex app to build and maintain by my lonesome, and considering
all that i have to do in addition, i don't really relish the idea of
spending numerous months hand coding guis, especially when the end
result is lack luster anyway.

in part i suppose i am just being lazy, but the reality is i simply
don't have the time.

okay, i guess i also must admit that i'm spoiled from my VB work, where
a complex form's creation took merely a day or two. while i don't mind
coding, the verbosity and nit-picking detail that one must go through
currently is just gut wrenching.

does that clarify enough?

by the way what is this very differnt kind of gui ;-)

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tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net

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