Massimiliano Mirra wrote: > Is anybody acquainted with Borland Delphi/C++ Builder and its VCL > (Visual Component Library), formerly only running on Windows? When > Kylix (Linux Delphi) was released, the VCL was renamed CLX and GPL'd. > It uses native widgets on Windows and GTK on Linux, plus whatever > extension one wants to write (in Object Pascal now, C++ when Kylix C++ > will be released for Linux as well). It is strongly OO and > event-oriented. It looks like a good set of native look and feel, > efficiency, cross-platform use, and ruby-ness (unless I am forgetting > some very big cons). There is already a Delphi/Kylix binding for Ruby. It's name is Apollo, see RAA. Regards, Michael -- Michael Neumann merlin.zwo InfoDesign GmbH http://www.merlin-zwo.de