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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: Need Help Selecting a GUI
From:       "Mohammad Khan" <mkhan () lextranet ! com>
Date:       2004-05-17 15:34:48
Message-ID: 035f01c43c2d$9c70ce90$6e00330a () float
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First, I was going to reply from the original message of this thread that
was sent by 'Bill Atkins'. My Outlook Express was saying 'A program is
trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook' !!


Couple of days back, I posted a similar message.
I liked Fox a lot. Its very much Object Oriented.

But I was surprised this morning when I went to the official website of Fox
http://www.fox-toolkit.org and found 'Coming Soon' By godaddy !!!


Mohammad
"Good artist borrow idea from others and great artist steal it !"



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich" <rich@lithinos.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: Need Help Selecting a GUI


> The FXScintilla Widget is a beast (like the docs say), but I'm as beginner
> of a prgrammer as you can get (I know that's not gramatically correct) -
and
> I was able to figure it out.
>
> -Rich
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Atkins" <dejaspam@batkins.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 7:18 AM
> Subject: Need Help Selecting a GUI
>
>
> > 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)
> >
> > Wx would be my choice except that it requires such a large download on
> > Linux.  I would really prefer that the user download as little as
> > possible, aside from Ruby itself.  Considering that my project's
> > source will be under 300K, it seems silly to require large GUI
> > downloads just to make it work.
> >
> > Also, antialiased fonts would be extremely nice, but no toolkit seems
> > to support them, except Gtk (right?) which I can't use because of the
> > large Win32 dependencies.
> >
> > Any thoughts on these?
> >
> > Bill
> >
>
>
>


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