From: Brian Wisti <brian@...>
Date: 2003-06-27T01:59:55+09:00
Subject: Re: WxRuby status?

At 01:42 AM 6/27/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>Now, as for how I would compare WxWindows with Gnome:
>
>I like Gnome very much, but it is still a very Linux-centric (or at
>least Unix-centric) toolkit.  WxWindows is multiplantform, but the neat
>thing about it is that it uses the native toolkit in each platform.  So,
>under Linux it uses Gnome, and under Windows it uses the Win32 API.
>
>So, in a sense, by using WxWindows I'm not really giving up Gnome, but I
>am getting platform independence.

Yes, wx provides a much greater level of platform independence.  Since it 
relies on native toolkits, it is just about the only toolkit that I can use 
unmodified on OS X, Linux, and Windows.  That's a big deal to me :-)

- Brian w


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