On Sat, March 12, 2005 10:05 am, Simon Strandgaard said: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:27:43 +0900, Dennis Roberts <denrober / gmail.com> wrote: >> So I am still learning Ruby. I am also learning C. I just did >> Conways Game of Life in C. I showed my wife and she wasn't impressed. > > Welcome to Ruby. I have tried the same, showing some thing I made > and get the same reaction. I don't know any longer what it takes to impress. > > >> I then decided to do it again in Ruby. I was thinking I could use a >> GUI toolkit to make it better looking. >> >> I am looking at them they don't seem ruby-ish. Or perhaps I don't >> know what I am talking about:) >> >> What is the best one for a newbie to get a handle on? > > If you are on windows then a GUI toolkit named Fxruby should have been > distributed with the Ruby installer. > > http://www.fxruby.org/ > > Documentation is relative good (better than other toolkits). This was a brief topic on #ruby-lang, too. My vote goes for FOX, as well, although Wx has the advantage of using native widgets. FLTK looks promising but may not be feature-rich enough as yet. > Simon Strandgaard E