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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: Need Help Selecting a GUI
From:       Jamey Cribbs <cribbsj () oakwood ! org>
Date:       2004-05-17 15:38:53
Message-ID: 40A8DC8B.20909 () oakwood ! org
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I think jeroen is in the process of changing providers or 
something...for now, try http://www.fox-toolkit.com.

Jamey

Mohammad Khan wrote:

> 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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