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<kazuhiro_hiwada / my-deja.com> wrote in message

> In article <89fooq$ags$1 / news.jump.net>,
>   "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker / jump.net> wrote:
>
> > Anyway, more information about wxWindows may be
> found here:
> >
> >     http://www.wxwindows.org
> >
> > I think it would be very useful to produce a
> Ruby/wxwin module for Ruby.
> > Since the wxPython module has been around for a
> while, it might be worth
> > looking into it for good ideas prior to doing a
> Ruby version.
...
> Main part of wxPython's interface seems written in
> SWIG.
> It possibly be portable by using swigruby.
>
> Before planning to reproduce wxWindows interface,
> see
> http://www.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/~fukusima/ruby/swig-e.html
>
> swigruby is C/C++-Ruby interface generator.  It's
> extreamly useful.
> And we'll be able to share module-building effort
> with Python-users
> through SWIG interface.

Thanks for checking into xwPython.

The swigruby tools looks very interesting.

This makes me much more tempted to try to do this module myself if we cannot
find anyone else before I get done with the comp.lang.ruby RFD process. But
I also hope this information and these tools will make someone else want to
try doing this first. Anybody else interested?

Conrad