Ruby GUI Toolkits as of July 2004

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I found a great overview of various GUI toolkits for Ruby but it's a bit old (2002 I think):

http://www.perfectxml.com/syngress/ruby/Page1.asp

Have any of you tried more than one GUI toolkit with Ruby? If so, which do you prefer?

Also, are there GUI design tools or Ruby code generators for these toolkits that are "ahead of the pack" at the moment?

Looking forward to getting your opinions and preferences.

Thanks.

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You can use QTDesigner and Glade, if that was what you meant

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il Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:46:35 GMT, Randy Lawrence <jm@zzzzzzzzzzzz.com> ha scritto::

Also, are there GUI design tools or Ruby code generators for these
toolkits that are "ahead of the pack" at the moment?

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Randy Lawrence wrote:

Have any of you tried more than one GUI toolkit with Ruby? If so, which do you prefer?

Sorta. Before moving to FXRuby, I did quite a bit of work with Pygtk. I've looked a little at Ruby-Gtk2 and it looks good, but, right now I prefer FXRuby/Fox. Here's why:

1. Small footprint. Using UPX, exerb, and Ezexrb, I can take a medium sized FXRuby gui app and create a stand-alone executable that is less than 2mb.

2. FXRuby is relatively straight-forward to code. Once you figure out a few basic things, you can pretty much figure out the whole library. (This can also be said of Ruby-gtk).

3. I do a lot of database gui programming, so I make heavy use of "listview" widgets. I liked the old CList widget in gtk, but that has been replaced in gtk2 by the liststore/treeview widget. This widget looks promising, but, so far for me, it is much slower than the old CList widget. FXRuby, on the other hand, has a FXTable widget that is very programmable and is super fast.

4. Fox/FXRuby is a good gui library that is getting better all the time. Jeroen is constantly improving Fox and Lyle is very good at keeping FXRuby in line with the newest Fox releases.

Jamey

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