From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-09-18T06:28:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Qt vs. FOX vs. ? (was Help on  installing ruby-qt on windowsXP)


"Edward Wilson" <web2ed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:5174eed0.0209171130.12081aa9@posting.google.com...
> Isn't somebody on this list porting the Perl/TK text to Ruby/TK?  I
> remember somebody asking if this was in the works, if not, they were
> going to take up this task.
>
> Also, since we are on the subject, how does Ruby/Fox compare with
> Ruby/TK?  I understand TK has a ten year head start and thousands of
> pages of English text behind it.  How useable for productin work has
> Ruby/FOX become?

The latest releases of FxRuby has improved stability significantly - get the
1.6.7 install for Windows.
The scintilla test application crashes within seconds but almost all other
sample applications appears stable. I also got the TextEdit application
crashing when I edited one of the files implementing it (didn't save it...)
but couldn't reproduce.

The test apps now say something like Sorry you need SOAP4R instead of just
terminating, when you miss that piece of software.

I like the way FxRuby easily synchronizes multiple controls due to the
bidirectional connections.
Haven't done any real FxRuby programming though - just investigating.

I also looked at the UFO OpenGL based GUI library for SDL (no Ruby
binding) - it is a completely bloated toolkit not delivering very much
although the concept as such looked interesting.

Other interesting news: The Mono project has decided to drop GTK and
implement WinForms on top of either Win32 native, or Wine on Linux (adding
GUI facilities to Wine along the way).

It therefore seems like WinForms could end up becoming a relevant cross
platform GUI toolkit. While this is still vaporware, Mono has proven that
they can grow functionality very quickly.

In this light a Ruby interface to MS .NET Winforms as well as Mono Winforms
would be an interesting project.

Mikkel