What do you use with Ruby for GUI programming and why?

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Tk has certainly been improved but when I was using it, it had not as
many features as Gtk2, for example list boxes or tree views with
sortable columns. That's the main reason why I switched.

Michel.

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What is the reason you switched from TK? Did you also feel that tk did not have enough features (and documentation)?

I was using Tk for a while, but those were the reason I stopped. I might give something else listed in this thread a
jab.

Simon

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:28:06AM +0900, Michel wrote:
> Hi
>
> Formerly I used Tk but now, I am using ruby-gtk2 because i found it very
> versatile and because it has a good documentation. I also like its
> object oriented design.
> I use it on windows (XP, 7) and linux (Fedora) without any change in my
> ruby 1.8.7 code.
>
> Michel.

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I currently just use straight swing wrapper with jruby (wrapped to be
ruby friendlier). Unfortunately there's no clear winner, AFAIK.

Roger, is that wrapper input_form?

A few months ago I learned of Monkeybars and had planned to learn it,
but I haven't gotten around to it. I'm still wondering what the
advantages of it (or other wrappers) over raw Swing are.

No it's just some homebrew stuff.
wrapper:
https://github.com/rdp/sensible-cinema/blob/master/lib/swing_helpers.rb
its use:

-r

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I like green_shoes.

I am just learning ruby. And find that just requireing 'green_shoes' and start experimenting is easy and fun.

Eelco

24

Looks very interesting, but the docs are a bit scanty!

martin

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On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Andrea Dallera <andrea@andreadallera.com> wrote:

<shameless_plug>
freightrain -> GitHub - bolthar/freightrain: Ruby desktop development made easy is an MVC framework over
GTK+ and other toolkits. It makes the job much easier than having to deal
directly with ruby/GTK... give it a try :slight_smile:
</shameless_plug>

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Shoes is far and away the easiest and most pleasant way to get a GUI that I've seen - in any language. I'm a bit worried about having to drop back to 1.9.1, and I sure miss the Linux installer. But I absolutely have to try Green Shoes, though.

Good luck with the project. I'll be looking on with fingers crossed...

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Where is the web page that lists the various colors of Shoes? I can't
seem to find it. In particular, I'm wondering what's special about
Green -- it says it's "pure Ruby", but then what is Red written in?

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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@gmail.com> wrote:

Shoes is far and away the easiest and most pleasant way to get a GUI that I've seen - in any language. I'm a bit worried about having to drop back to 1.9.1, and I sure miss the Linux installer. But I absolutely have to try Green Shoes, though.

Good luck with the project. I'll be looking on with fingers crossed...

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Hi Shadowfirebird,

Shoes is far and away the easiest and most pleasant way to get a GUI
that I've seen - in any language.

True! I totally agree. :smiley:

I absolutely have to try Green Shoes

Wow, fantastic!
If you have any troubles, questions or suggestions, feel free let us know
in Shoes ML: http://librelist.com/browser/shoes/

Good luck with the project. I'll be looking on with fingers crossed...

Thanks! Let's have fun with colorful Shoes!! :smiley:

ashbb

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Hi Eric,

Where is the web page that lists the various colors of Shoes?

Look at "A Rainbow of Shoes"-- http://blog.shoesrb.com/archive

what is Red written in?

Red Shoes is written in both C and Ruby.

Cheers,
ashbb

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Where is the web page that lists the various colors of Shoes? I can't
seem to find it. In particular, I'm wondering what's special about
Green -- it says it's "pure Ruby", but then what is Red written in?

I wrote a bunch of blog posts about the various shoes-es on the Shoes blog:
http://blog.shoesrb.com/tagged/Rainbowshoes

We haven't been talking about all of them super-publically yet because most
of them are still in the 'super ultra alpha' phase. The two big ones are Red
and Green: Red is _why's original code, it's a combination of C and Ruby
that uses native widgets on all platforms. Green is a project started by ash
to write an all-Ruby shoes, that uses Ruby's own bindings to GTK.
Unfortunately, you need X11 on the Mac to run apps with it, but it works
natively on Linux and Windows.