On May 14, 7:06 pm, Alex Fenton <a... / deleteme.pressure.to> wrote:
> If using native XP widgets is a high priority, WxRuby may meet your needs (http://wxruby.rubyforge.org). It takes a rather different approach to the other excellent GUI toolkits for ruby (egQT, GTK), in that it wraps the OS's native APIs on Windows, Linux/GTK and OS X, so you get native XP, Aqua or GTK GUIs with the same code on different platforms.
You are implying that somehow WxWidgets is more 'native' than Qt - I
don't agree it 'takes a rather different approach' as you say above.

* On Linux Qt is just as much a native UI as GTK is.

* On Windows there is actually no such thing as a 'native UI', in that
various Microsoft products tend to roll their widgets, and Qt is as
native as anything else.

* On Mac OS X, Qt uses the appearance manager and is pretty much a
peer of Carbon and Cocoa, with some minor exceptions, see:
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qtmac-as-native.html

-- Richard