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Subject: Re: Need Help Selecting a GUI
From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward () noaa ! gov>
Date: 2004-05-15 21:43:53
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0405151530520.14017-100000 () fattire ! ngdc ! noaa ! gov
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On 15 May 2004, Bill Atkins wrote:
> As anyone can tell by looking at the topics of my recent posts, I'm
> having trouble picking a Ruby GUI to use for a project. Here are some
> of the toolkits I'm considering and the pros and cons of each. My
> project, by the way, is a simple open-source, instant messaging client
> that would have to work on Windows and NIX systems.
>
> 1. Tk
> pros: comes with Ruby; pretty much everywhere; powerful TkText widget
> cons: messy, mostly undocumented API; unconventional appearance;
> requires tcl; no tree control; it's Tk :)
>
> 2. FOX
> pros: consistent and attractive appearance; very OO
> cons: no substitute for TkText - FXScintilla might do the trick, but
> it's API is a lot more complicated than TkText; somewhat C++-ish API;
> FxTreeList doesn't allow setting styles for individual items
>
> 3. Qt
> pros: supposed to be really nice
> cons: costs money on Win32 - out of the question
>
> 4. Gtk
> pros: plenty of widgets; antialiasing
> cons: supposed to be unstable on Win32; requires large download on
> Win32 machines; X-ish interface
>
> 5. Wx
> pros: well-designed Rubyish API; supports changing tree item styles;
> seems pretty stable for a young project; native widgets
> cons: brand new - could have problems; on Linux, requires a large
> download (wxGTK) in order to work (6MB)
6. webrick + native browser
you're program spawns a webserver (fork or popen) and then spanws a browser
pointing at it. the webrick server IS the ui.
pros: works on *nix, windoze, mac. familiar ui. extremely quick to code.
cons: limiting ui (but what do you really need for an im client?)
just something to consider - i had managed to make this work in 30 lines of
code or so a while back - now i can't seem to find it, but it's pretty
straightword:
url = start_server
require 'rbconfig'
case platform
when /*nix/
start_nix_client url
when /windoze/
start_windoze_client url
when /mac/
start_mac_client url
end
-a
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