From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-02-22T05:58:11+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI and serial communications

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 04:23:25AM +0900, Dave Boland wrote:
> I was told about the Ruby language, and have been doing some homework on
> it.  So far I'm impressed with its OO design and other high level
> features.  Two things I will need (and have not found so far) is an easy
> to use GUI (the app will have a GUI), and an RS-232 communications
> library.  The intended OS is Windows for now, but Linux and Mac are
> being looked at.

1) I am partial for Ruby-GNOME2.  Gtk+2 is a great, cross-platform 
toolkit.  The Ruby bindings are still under development, so I'm not sure 
how they work under Windows.  But development is moving fast.

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.net/

2) Some people like FXRuby.  I don't particularly like it (for instance, 
it doesn't look native), but a lot of people do, so you should consider it.

http://fxruby.sourceforge.net/

3) Of course, there is good-all Tk (again, it doesn't look native) (comes 
with Ruby):

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_tk.html
http://httpd.chello.nl/k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/

4) There is FLTK/Ruby:

http://ruby-fltk.sourceforge.net/

5) For Windows-only GUIs, there is the Win32API (comes with Ruby):

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_windows.html

5) For Mac-only GUIs there is RubyCocoa:

http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/index.en.html


There's a RubyQt but it's alpha.  I hope that one of these suits your 
needs.

-- 
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137