From: David Garamond <davegaramond@...>
Date: 2003-01-15T14:09:38+09:00
Subject: native gui toolkit on windows (aka: are there people building windows gui app with ruby?)

as with many people, i too am quite surprised to find out that wxwindows 
doesn't have a ruby binding yet. are there many people building windows 
GUI app with ruby yet? if yes, what are most of them using? FxRuby? Tk? 
are there alternatives to these two? i'm looking for access to a native 
GUI toolkit (i.e.: MFC).

the drawback with non-native GUI toolkit is that, well, they don't look 
native. for example, i just played with FreeRIDE and, while it is nice 
and pretty fast, the file open dialog looks weird to me. FOX tries to 
mimic the windows look-and-feel, but its file open dialog looks like a 
mixture of win3.1 and win95. you can do alternate views and trigger a 
context menu for each item, but you don't see "My Documents", "Desktop", 
"Network Neighborhood", etc. i know some windows users that doesn't even 
know what "C:\" or drive letter is. all they know is "the My Documents 
folder", "My Computer", and "the Desktop".

-- 
dave