GUI Toolkit questions

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Wow, WideStudio looks very interesting. I had not heard of it up until
now. I will definitely be looking into it, GTK, and Tk.

Thanks a lot everyone, I am of course still open to any other
suggestions anyone out there may have.

-Matthew Margolis

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----- Original Message -----
From: "dross@code-exec.net" <dross@code-exec.net>
Date: Thursday, October 7, 2004 2:47 pm
Subject: Re: GUI Toolkit questions

A toolkit I have been using much which might live up to your
expectationsis WideStudio. It has a gui designer and toolkit
library. Portable on many
systems and even many embedded.

GTK might be another you might consider, but I have never ran it on
mac.

wxWidgets(aka wxWindows) is another toolkit. the designers are
commercial,also they are not great at all. I have tried them. This
toolkit is
basically a wrapper, nothing neat here except awing at the limitations
because each toolkit wxWidgets uses is different.

Qt works but commercial on windows

There is also Tk :slight_smile: Its portable.

All of them have bastardized licenses for any(closed source, etc) use
except WideStudio. Unless you buy the Qt license.

Also see this link. Its outdated but gives some useful info

The GUI Toolkit, Framework Page

btw. widestudio does work with mac, that list is just outdated :slight_smile:

--dross

Original Message:
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From: MATTHEW REUBEN MARGOLIS mrmargolis@wisc.edu
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 04:08:51 +0900
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
Subject: GUI Toolkit questions

I am currently designing a map editor for a game that I am writing in
ruby. I have never written anything along the lines of a map
editor and
was hoping that someone here could provide a few suggestions as to
whichgraphical toolkit would best suit my needs.

I need to be able to display a large grid of 300 tiles, each of which
can have a different picture that can change during execution. I will
need to be able to treat these tiles as individual buttons or have
someother easy way to keep track of which tile the mouse is currently
over/clicking on. I will also need to be able to create a tool
window(possibly floating) that will contain all the tools that you can
use to operate on the tile grid.

Cross platform(Windows, Linux, Mac OS X compatibility would be
optimal.
Thank you,
Matthew Margolis

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