On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Holden Glova wrote:

> Seeing as only Kevin and I seem to be in this discussion - would those of
> the list prefer to continue this in private or are others interested in
> this? I don't want to contribute to "noise" of this fantastic list if I
> can help it.  Just let me know :)

I'm following the discussion, just not saying much because I'm not sure
how accurate my current opinions are.

All factors combined, I think Gtk+ is currently the most promising GUI
toolkit. It has a fairly primitive API for GUI builders which I've used
in a previous project. This API is reported to have been upgraded quite
a bit in the upcoming Gtk 2.0, so wrapping this API may be better than
SWIGging all the C level functions across.

Gtk+ has its own dynamic object system with reference counting, which is
closer to Ruby's than it is to C++'s. For this reason, Gtk-- has problems
wrapping Gtk++ as it tries convert things to C++ semantics.

I have some code from another project that uses the GUI builder API and
just got the Programming Ruby book, so I'll play around with this. Not
with the intention of releasing the next wrapper, but so I can better
assist with any GUI/IDE project.

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  steve / deaf.org