James Britt wrote:
> Israel Guerra wrote:
>> Hail everyone!
>>
>> This is my first post here. :)
>>
>> I want to develop a desktop app that runs in either linux or windows.
>> I have many doubts about which GUI i should use. What's the best 
>> option? I
>> heard about wxwidgets or tk, but have no idea of what i should use.
>>
>> I would prefer something that has a graphical app that can help me 
>> creating
>> the visual part.
>>
>>
>
> JRuby + Monkeybars + NetBeans GUI editor = Massive Win
>
> http://www.monkeybars.org
>
> Super-easy GUI app development, plus you can use rawr for snap-simple 
> packaging for multiple platforms.
>
>
> There is nothing better.
>
This all sounds very interesting, and I want to investigate it, but I 
dread having to deal with the java monster. I've been there before. 
Forty-five+ versions, all with 26 letter names, and documentation that 
requires a masters in CS to decypher. I simply cannot know everything, 
and I'm pretty committed in a couple of other fields. Still, I have 
programming to get done, and drag and drop GUI that doesn't require yet 
another book to read would be a blessing.

So, onward, again. I try to install Netbeans 6 for Linux. Says it want a 
JDK (the dread starts now). I'm on Kubuntu, so I go to Adept, find 
sun-jave6-jdk - nothing else looks more likely - and install it. Now 
Netbeans says it can't find it and I need to point the way. Huh? Don't 
have a clue.

Looking at the helpful (?) installed files list under the tab of the 
same name in I see a long file list. Nothing seems clearly the answer to 
Netbeans problems, so I throw a number of possibilities at it. Nothing 
works. Sigh.

Could someone who knows more please give me a clue here? I'm be most 
grateful.

t.

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