From: Brian Wisti <brian@...>
Date: 2003-01-11T15:19:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Fox

Hi Dan,

I was not aware that Fox was being declared standard or official in any 
capacity.  A lot of Rubyists are using Fox because it is easy for them to set 
up and Lyle Johnson works hard to make FXRuby useful for interested parties.

FOX is not the native GUI for any system, but folks who want a "native" 
toolkit seem to be using a direct interface to those toolkits (Cocoa, COM, 
GTK) instead of wxWindows or FOX.  Even though it is not native, it is a 
comprehensive toolkit, and I've heard very little of people saying "oh, I 
wish it had this widget".  

Perhaps somebody with more extensive experience can correct me, but FOX also 
seems to have a respectable startup time - slower than Tk, but faster than 
Java/Swing.

Most of all, I don't think that people are choosing FOX.  They are choosing 
FXRuby, which is one of the more impressive toolkit interfaces I have come 
across.

But that's my opinion, and it's not a very informed one :-)

-Brian W

On Friday 10 January 2003 03:16 pm, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Could someone explain to me why Ruby is adopting Fox as its standard GUI?
>
> I'm not bashing Fox, this is an honest question.  Fox is not the standard
> GUI of any OS.  My experience indicates that it's difficult to install
> under Unix/Linux.  Because it's not based on the native GUI it always
> looks out of place (IMHO) and (for the same reason) it's slow (at least in
> my limited experience).
>
> I'm sure that there is a very good reason for choosing Fox.  I just want
> to know what it is.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Daniel Carrera
> Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
> University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137

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