Hello,
My apologies if this is a silly question. I have never written a game before and I have never used a GUI toolkit before. I am an accomplished programmer (at things like HTTP proxy servers), and a senior in a Computer Science program.
I want to write a simple asteroids style game that will run on both my FreeBSD box, and my brother's Windows box. I want to use Ruby because I really want to learn Ruby, partially so I can try out RAILS. I want to write a clone of an old DOS game I can remember playing, but I can't remember the name of it.
Anyway, I will need simple 2D animation. So, what will work for this? I heat GTK+ is nice to code for with Ruby, but it looks like the Win32 port for GTK+ is kind of unstable (please correct me if I am wrong). I have heard that TK is a little painful to program with, but is _very_ cross platform (again, correct me if I am wrong). How about FOX? Will these GUI toolkits even work, or should I be looking at SDL?
Thank You in advance.
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gtk's canvas is not only slow but also supposedly quite
unstable on win32. so yeah. i think ur right 
i'm qtruby co-devel so i should really be saying things
like: qt! cus qt4 will have gpl'ed windows support!!!
and its wonderful! yay! and whoop!
but erm. sdl is a better choice. so i won't 
Alex
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On Feb 10, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Tabor Kelly wrote:
Anyway, I will need simple 2D animation. So, what will work for this? I heat GTK+ is nice to code for with Ruby, but it looks like the Win32 port for GTK+ is kind of unstable (please correct me if I am wrong). I have heard that TK is a little painful to program with, but is _very_ cross platform (again, correct me if I am wrong). How about FOX? Will these GUI toolkits even work, or should I be looking at SDL?
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Anyway, I will need simple 2D animation. So, what will work for this? I
heat GTK+ is nice to code for with Ruby, but it looks like the Win32
port for GTK+ is kind of unstable (please correct me if I am wrong). I
have heard that TK is a little painful to program with, but is _very_
cross platform (again, correct me if I am wrong). How about FOX? Will
these GUI toolkits even work, or should I be looking at SDL?
I haven't used it, but RUDL (http://rudl.sf.net/\) sits on top of SDL and
provides a higher level interface. (Based on the PyGame Python library.)
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In article <420BB6BD.7070006@taborandtashell.net>, Tabor Kelly wrote:
Quoting Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@lypanov.net>:
> Anyway, I will need simple 2D animation. So, what will work for this?
> I heat GTK+ is nice to code for with Ruby, but it looks like the Win32
> port for GTK+ is kind of unstable (please correct me if I am wrong). I
> have heard that TK is a little painful to program with, but is _very_
> cross platform (again, correct me if I am wrong). How about FOX? Will
> these GUI toolkits even work, or should I be looking at SDL?
gtk's canvas is not only slow but also supposedly quite
unstable on win32. so yeah. i think ur right
I believe Tk's canvas is both fast and stable. I've had good success with it.
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On Feb 10, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Tabor Kelly wrote:
i'm qtruby co-devel so i should really be saying things
like: qt! cus qt4 will have gpl'ed windows support!!!
and its wonderful! yay! and whoop!
but erm. sdl is a better choice. so i won't
Alex
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"R. Mark Volkmann" <mark@ociweb.com> writes:
Quoting Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@lypanov.net>:
> Anyway, I will need simple 2D animation. So, what will work for this?
> I heat GTK+ is nice to code for with Ruby, but it looks like the Win32
> port for GTK+ is kind of unstable (please correct me if I am wrong). I
> have heard that TK is a little painful to program with, but is _very_
> cross platform (again, correct me if I am wrong). How about FOX? Will
> these GUI toolkits even work, or should I be looking at SDL?
gtk's canvas is not only slow but also supposedly quite
unstable on win32. so yeah. i think ur right
I believe Tk's canvas is both fast and stable. I've had good success with it.
I found it rather slow, as you need to create an object per line and
so on... YMMV.
i'm qtruby co-devel so i should really be saying things
like: qt! cus qt4 will have gpl'ed windows support!!!
and its wonderful! yay! and whoop!
Someday. 
but erm. sdl is a better choice. so i won't
I'd use SDL too.
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On Feb 10, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Tabor Kelly wrote:
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