On 11/28/05, tony <L / l.com> wrote:
> Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> > Why do you need an IDE to develop a cross-platform GUI application?
>
> I understand that you can write a complex graphical interface based
> application with pure ruby code, but it's quite a pain in the neck (you
> must tell by code the coordinate of each single widget and so on).
> That's also in part the reason why many people spend tons of cash on
> Visual Studio: you design the interface, and then you write the code to
> make it do something useful. Isn't it?

With Gtk and Tk, you don't use coordinates.  You pack widgets into
containers and pack those containers into windows.

It's not terribly difficult, and it's a better approach than
pixel-oriented coordinate systems.