Although I'm (very) new to Ruby, I have some experience building IDE's. I
note that Borland is soon to release a version of Delphi on Linux code-named
Kylix. Version 6 of Delphi/C++ Builder will support a cross platform library
for GUI objects called CLX, such that you can code an entire native
application on Win32 using this library, and recompile the same project in
Linux to generate the same application natively on Linux. This isn't
interpreted byte code, a la Java, but real compiled machine code for both
platforms.

I'd be interested in doing two things: 1.) Helping to build a Ruby IDE; and
2.) Creating a GUI widget library for Ruby based on the CLX library. Both
the IDE and the GUI library would work on both Win32 and Linux, assuming of
course that Borland delivers on this very interesting concept.

Any thoughts?

Sincerely,

Bob Calco

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard A.Schulman [mailto:RichardASchulman / att.net]
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 10:34 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: [ruby-talk:7437] Re: Ruby IDE (again)


Stephen White writes:

>...All factors combined, I think Gtk+ is currently the most promising GUI
>toolkit....

Does Gtk+ provide a sophisticated table widget, for
row-and-column database display and update?

Richard Schulman