From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-20T17:20:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Fox --> GTK  ?

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:28:19 +0900,
> Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> 
>>I don't want to proceed until I can fix the biggest bugs, and I think
>>I've reached the critical point where Fox is just too hard for me.
>>
> 
> 
> Out of curiosity, Hal:
> Why do you think that Gtk would be easier?
> 
> Mind you, I don't know much about Ruby GUI bindings either, but
> I'll have to do some work there soon, errr ... now, in fact. 
> 
> So I'm very interested in your point of view here.

I'm not certain Gtk would be easier.

But as I get deeper into Fox, I start accumulating things that I
find strange or unintuitive or difficult.

For example, I would expect that when a Widget object is created,
the widget itself is created. But you actually have to call
#create on it after creating it. (Except when you don't.)

The final straw for me was when I spent many, many hours trying to
get an MDIChild to show up in the MDIClient window after I created
it (and #created it).

I tried many different things to no avail.

You may find this page interesting:
http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/FXRuby/fox-1.0.40/doc/faq.html#CLIENTSERVER

To be fair, I do find Fox rich and powerful, and it's probably just
my ignorance getting in the way. But I did reach the point where I
said: No more.

That's just my personal experience.

Hal