From: Idan Sofer <idan@...>
Date: 2003-03-19T18:19:08+09:00
Subject: Thoughts about native Ruby widget set

Looking at RAA's listing:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/cat.rhtml?category_major=Library;category_minor=GUI

There appears to be a large collection of Ruby bindings for various C/C++ 
widget sets, Gtk, QT, Fox, Tk, etc... 

There's nothing wrong in writing for C/C++ widgets, and in fact it is 
nesscesry if you wish your application intergrate with a desktop enviroment 
such as KDE/Gnome.

However, I feel there is a lack of native, pure ruby widget set - this way 
ruby could have gui support in it's core distribution, no need for external 
depencies.

Although non-trivial ,in theory this task is possible, for Unix pure ruby X11 
library available, and for win32 there is the win32api(an abstraction layer 
could be used here, with the widget set built on top, like Gtk/Gdk)

I am taking first steps in this direction, experimenting with RubyX11, I just 
wonder if someone else has already started working on a similar idea...