From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-05-21T00:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Current wxRuby status

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur" <arthur8@boardermail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: Current wxRuby status


> > Concerning the design of the interface I think you are well adviced to
> > check how Lyle do things in FXRuby; in my opinion its a very
> > nice interface. Similarity of different GUI extensions also makes its
> > simpler to then do an extension � la anygui where the actual GUI used is
> > just a plugin.
> >
>
> While that's certainly true, one might argue that it's also
> advantageous to emulate the Python wxWindows style.  Anyone already
> familiar with the Python way can then easily port GUI code written in
> Python into Ruby.

That is a good point, and I do feel it's worthwhile
to toss a bone or two to the Pythoners... (we have
tossed so many to the Perlers).

Perhaps the two are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps
the Python style could be a subset of the Ruby-wxWindows
API.

But this is just idle speculation, as I know neither
Python nor wxWindows.

Hal