as with many people, i too am quite surprised to find out that wxwindows
doesn’t have a ruby binding yet. are there many people building windows
GUI app with ruby yet? if yes, what are most of them using? FxRuby? Tk?
are there alternatives to these two? i’m looking for access to a native
GUI toolkit (i.e.: MFC).
the drawback with non-native GUI toolkit is that, well, they don’t look
native. for example, i just played with FreeRIDE and, while it is nice
and pretty fast, the file open dialog looks weird to me. FOX tries to
mimic the windows look-and-feel, but its file open dialog looks like a
mixture of win3.1 and win95. you can do alternate views and trigger a
context menu for each item, but you don’t see “My Documents”, “Desktop”,
“Network Neighborhood”, etc. i know some windows users that doesn’t even
know what “C:” or drive letter is. all they know is “the My Documents
folder”, “My Computer”, and “the Desktop”.
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dave