On 1/15/06, David Vallner <david / vallner.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:42:11 +0100, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb / gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 1/13/06, John Lam <drjflam / gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > How crazy would I have to be to try making a Windows Forms GUI app using
> > this?
> >
> > Looks like fun, either way.
> >
>
>
> Actually, I already managed to call .NET ArrayLists via Win32OLE. It
> doesn't get (much) crazier.
>
> Why would you want to use WinForms anyway? It's such a horrible terrible
> clumsy GUI toolkit anyway.
>
I'm looking for the ability to write GUI apps in Ruby, without any of
the deployment difficulties associated with 'non-standard' toolkits. 
I probably just need to get better at packaging working subsets of the
full Ruby install on Windows, though.  I was starting to think that
.NET was an easier prerequisite than "Ruby, GTK+, and these particular
environment variables."
Your post reminded me how bad parts of WinForms are, though. Heh.