From: alex fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2004-04-21T11:49:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Fox --> GTK  ?

Hi Hal

Hal Fulton wrote:

> Who has experience converting Fox to GTK and might like to
> offer a little assistance?
> 
> Specific areas are MDI and tree lists.
> 
> It's about Tycho (http://tycho.rubyforge.org) where I've more or
> less hit a wall.

I've been getting kinda stuck with Fox on 1.6.8 working on an app with 
similar interface components (inc trees and MDI) - an qualitative data 
analysis app. Today I've been looking at wXRuby as a possible 
replacement, and I thought it might be of interest.

The binary downloads worked easily with the 1.8.1 Ruby installer ruby. 
The tree demonstration is comprehensive, and the simple MDI example does 
  feel a bit slicker than Fox - for example, nice cascading of 
successively opened documents.

There are some missing classes (HTML is one I was hoping for), but it's 
reasonably documented; wxWidgets (the underlying library) also seems to 
have some more discursive docs, which I like - eg 
http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.4.2/wx485.htm#wxtreectrloverview

It also all worked very easily with a recent exerb when packaged up 
(along with sqlite) into a single .exe on Windows.

cheers
alex