From: Gawnsoft <xlucid@...>
Date: 2004-04-21T19:09:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Fox --> GTK  ?

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:08:46 +0900, Lothar Scholz
<mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote (more or less):

>Hello Hal,
>
>Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 10:20:33 AM, you wrote:
>
>HF> To be fair, I do find Fox rich and powerful, and it's probably just
>HF> my ignorance getting in the way. But I did reach the point where I
>HF> said: No more.
>
>Don't know if this helps you but maybe you want to look at my just
>released Arachno Ruby IDE, it allows you to debug FOX apps (in fact
>your Tycho) was one the first apps where i tested the debugger.
>
>And if you don't like this. Maybe you want have a look at FLTK. The
>included Ruby Distribution (1.8.1 based) comes with a ready to use FLTK
>extension.
>
>URL is:  http://www.ruby-ide.com
>
>By the way the IDE is written in FOX. So you can see that FOX is
>indeed rich and powerful, but i also saw that it didn't fit into my way of
>doing things (create, target system, shortcut keys etc.) so i spend the
>first months on writing an abstraction layer.

Perhaps it'd be wporth publishing the (Fox-specific?) abstraction
layer?



Cheers, 
   Euan
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