>I also had some questions for Nathaniel: How do you like (Ruby/)Gtk in 
>general? Have you also tried using it on Windows? (This last question is 
>stimulated by recent cross-platform IDE/browser discussions.)

I grabbed Ruby/GTK and it seemed to work fine with ruby 1.6.1. (At least, the samples worked fine. I haven't tried it under Windows. I'm running Linux.

It seems to me like Ruby/GTK is a not-very-OO wrapper around GTK. I had hoped it would be more like GTK--, which is a C++ OO wrapper that seems pretty nice.

I've used wxWindows with C++ (under Windows), and found it to be very comfortable. That's because I've used MFC for years, and wxWindows is very similar. If I get motivated enough, I might try to use SWIG to create Ruby/wx. wxWindows is large enough that it would probably be quite a task. But at least it's been done for Python already, so it should be possible.

So far, I'm stumbling along with Ruby/Tk. It's not pleasant, but it does work.

Kevin