I suspect it would be possible but I also suspect it would be quite  
difficult. And I think the absence of a direct-manipulation graphical  
IDE is one of the things that keeps Ruby adoption somewhat restrained.

That said, Ruby does include graphical extensions for using Gtk and  
Fox. I've never looked at Fox but the Gtk toolkit is, while somewhat  
primitive, eminently usable.

On Jan 5, 2006, at 12:32 PM, simonh wrote:

> this may be a daft question, but is it possible to create a widget
> toolkit using a scripting language? I know that most are written in  
> C /
> C++ (QT, fox, wx), also ncurses for terminal interfaces. Therefore, is
> it impossible to do such a thing with ruby? Or is it just to much hard
> work?
>
> Please can someone put my mind at rest and possibly give an
> understandable explanation as to why it can't be done.
>
> many thanks
>
>



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