From: craig duncan <duncan@...>
Date: 2000-12-23T02:00:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7966] Re: Praise for Ruby/GTK

Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> 
> >I had really hoped that my app would work on Win
> >and Mac, but GTK is so much better than Tk that
> >I'm about to give up on my cross-platform hopes.
> >(Yes, I know there's work on a Windows port of
> >GTK).
> 
> I thought there was already at least a beta of GTK+ for Windows.
> Pretty sure I read that here somewhere.
> 
> I've just written a reasonably large app in Ruby/Tk and was wondering
> about porting to GTK+, so your good experience gives me a little more
> confidence.  I almost bought a book on programming with GTK+ earlier
> today, but decided against it.


As someone mentioned, as of Tk 8.0, Tk has native Windows look and
feel.  One big difference i see that you might want to consider is that,
presently, the GTK+ widgets are much "uglier" than Tk's.  Really,
_really_ hope that that changes at some point.