Daniel Carrera (dcarrera / math.umd.edu) wrote:

Hi Ethan & Daniel!

Thank you for your replies.

> I think that Gtk2 is your best bet.  Personally, that's what I plan on 
> using for any cross-platform GUIs I write.  The Gtk2 toolkit is superb 
> (imho).

That's nice to hear. I've been doubting which GUI toolkit to choose: Qt
has all the required features, but it looks that the free Win port is a
dead-end :-(

FOX is cross-platform, but lacks Unicode, so I'm glad to hear nice words
about Gtk2.
I'd like to settle on one and start learning it :-)

> Yup!.  My family and I currently use gaim to keep in touch.  My mom has 
> Windows, my brother Linux and I Solaris.  Gaim works beautifully on all 
> three.  I have another brother using Mac OS X, but I doubt he's into IM.

That's a good marketing :-)

> > As to whether Ruby/Gtk2 will need porting before Ruby/Gtk2 on Windows
> > is reasonable, I can't say -- but I can say that it should be possible
> > to port it in any case.
> 
> I think that Ruby/Gtk2 does need porting to Windows, but that'll happen 
> quickly since both Ruby and Gtk2 work well under Windows and development 
> of Ruby/Gtk2 is going fast.

Yes, I also have feeling that Ruby/Gtk2 is nicely developing.
So, let us pray to see the Win port soon.

Sincerely,
Gour

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