From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-12-22T05:10:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7909] Re: GUIs for Rubies

Ben Tilly writes,

# For more thoughts on this see:
# 
# http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=29620

Interesting article. Not to mention nice site/community worthy of Ruby 
emulation.

Feature-wise, I especially like being able to scroll through everything on 
a thread (rather than having to repeatedly click, wait, click, wait, 
click, wait, ...). 

# ># Tk is a good fit for very simple applications.
# >
# >That was certainly my experience with Perl/Tk some years ago.
# 
# Exactly.  Perl/Tk came out and was sufficient to the main
# need.  If you want to write GUI wrappers, you will hit
# problems with Perl before Tk, and hence there is little
# need in the Perl community for anything more sophisticated
# in the way of GUI toolkits than Tk.

Let me more or less repeat my earlier question, this time to Dave 
(Thomas): what was your reason for telling the XP folks that Ruby 
(presumably with Tk) was not up to snuff for heavy GUI lifting? 
Performance? Missing many now-common-elsewhere widgets? Or ...?

Conrad Schneiker
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