From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@...>
Date: 2000-12-17T07:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7473] Re: GUIs for Rubies

From: "W. Kent Starr" <elderburn@mindspring.com>

# On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, you wrote:
# > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:01:21 +0900, Conrad Schneiker
# > <schneik@us.ibm.com> wrote:
# >
# >
# > >GTK+ is pure C, and some substantial fraction of Ruby/GTK+ is *already*
# > >*done*. And there are already a couple of *books* on GTK+ programming.
And
# > >there is a pretty nice open source GUI-based GUI builder available for
it
# > >(i.e. Glade), unlike the one for wxWindows, which is proprietary.
# >
# > Is there a module for ruby like python-glade?
# >
# > Johann
#
# AFAIK not as yet (but maybe in progress?) At any rate, glade uses an xml
.glade
# file as the source for code outoput in c, c++, perl. ada. etc., so it
should
# not be that difficult to fold in the same for ruby.

Actually there was something of this sort, because I tried it out earlier
this
year. IIRC, there was a note about this in one of the files (README*? or
INSTALL*?) in the Ruby/GTK+ tarball.

Conrad