From: jweirich@... Date: 2000-12-19T09:59:36+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:7615] GUIs >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Thomas writes: Dave> And I think that's an important point. We're not deciding Dave> here which library developers must use. [...] we're not Dave> doing anything that prevents a team from using any GUI Dave> library they want. And I agree that this is important. No matter which GUI is picked for the "built-in standard", there will be people who will want to use Ruby AND their favorite GUI toolkit together. I hope we have good, robust interfaces for GTK and Qt (at least). I'm sure there are others who want to delve into the intricities of the Windows API to do native applications there. Dave> [...] and I'd like to see what a FOX-based interface looked Dave> like (both visually and in code) before making my mind which Dave> library I personally will be using. Agreed. One of the nice features of Tk was its utterly simple programming model (at least compared to monsters like Motif). 3 lines of code (in Ruby, it only took 2 in Tcl) could put a functional window with a single working button. I hope the eventual successor will keep simplicity in mind. -- -- Jim Weirich jweirich@one.net http://w3.one.net/~jweirich --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)