From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-11-21T16:41:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6489] Re: GUI in ruby

Hi,

Johann writes:

#  How portable is ruby-fltk and the gtk-bindings?

Oops, Yashi's last note reminded me that I forgot to answer this part.

For gtk, I tried Ruby/GTK on AIX and was pretty impressed with it. (I also 
tried out the Glade/XML GUI builder to make some simple Ruby/GTK demo 
programs.)

Since Sun has committed to the Gnome desktop, I'm sure GTK+ will be in 
good shape on Sun Unix. I think this is very likely to be (increasingly) 
true for other Unix platforms.

As for MS Windows, http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/ still carries a 
list of warnings concerning the Windows GTK+ project. On the other hand, 
the Gimp uses GTK+, and the Windows version of Gimp seems to run OK under 
NT 4 (although I haven't done much with it). 

However, I've never tried Ruby/GTK+ on Windows (although I would probably 
be among the first to try it if Dave and Andy were to include it in their 
Windows InstallShield distribution :-).

www.gtk.org does not show a Mac GTK+ project. 

Conrad Schneiker
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