I would like to create an interface GUI with ruby. What I have to use? I
would like that the GUI could be used in win, osx and linux. Is there a
good interface builder?
ulazar wrote:
I would like to create an interface GUI with ruby. What I have to use?
I would like that the GUI could be used in win, osx and linux. Is
there a good interface builder?
If you want to design it yourself, I think you can use Ruby/Tk, FoxGUI,
wxWidgets and Shoes. A drag-and-drop interface for designing GUI is
WideStudio. It takes a little getting used to, but it can do quite a
bit of stuff!
Cheers,
Mohit.
11/18/2007 | 5:46 PM.
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:52:25 -0800 (PST)
FireAphis [email protected] wrote:
easier to create). I’ve personally chosen GTK2.
Check this out:
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgiRegarding a good interface builder I have much less experience. I code
the interface definitions myself.
Glade. Ruby + Gtk2 + glade make UIs a breeze.
-jh
On Nov 18, 11:17 am, ulazar [email protected] wrote:
I would like to create an interface GUI with ruby. What I have to use? I
would like that the GUI could be used in win, osx and linux. Is there a
good interface builder?
I had a similar question regarding which library to use. After talking
to people and reading various posts and articles I reached a
conclusion that I have to choose between Tk and GTK2. Tk+Ruby seems to
have more resources on the web but GTK2+Ruby looks better and
apparently is more easily customizable (custom drawn widgets was
easier to create). I’ve personally chosen GTK2.
Check this out:
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi
Regarding a good interface builder I have much less experience. I code
the interface definitions myself.
FireAphis
Hello –
On 18/11/2007, Jonathan H. [email protected] wrote:
Glade. Ruby + Gtk2 + glade make UIs a breeze.
I don’t mind Tk – that has the advantage of being in the core, too.
– Thomas A.
On Nov 18, 2:06 pm, Thomas A. [email protected] wrote:
Hello –
On 18/11/2007, Jonathan H. [email protected] wrote:
Glade. Ruby + Gtk2 + glade make UIs a breeze.
I don’t mind Tk – that has the advantage of being in the core, too.
– Thomas A.
Yeah. Actually that is its biggest advantage. You have to download a
bunch of libraries from different sources to make Gtk2 run with ruby.
It took me a while to configure all the components correctly (well, in
my case I needed some more libraries than usually required). Tk on the
other hand is already there, ready to be used. If your GUI is small
and practical Tk is excellent.
FireAphis
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:18:32 -0800 (PST)
FireAphis [email protected] wrote:
Yeah. Actually that is its biggest advantage. You have to download a
bunch of libraries from different sources to make Gtk2 run with ruby.
It took me a while to configure all the components correctly (well, in
my case I needed some more libraries than usually required). Tk on the
other hand is already there, ready to be used. If your GUI is small
and practical Tk is excellent.
apt-get ruby-gnome (ubuntu et al)
pkg_add -r ruby18-gnome2-all.tgz (FreeBSD)
wget / unzip
(win32)
wget / dpkg -i
http://maemo.rubyx.co.uk/ruby-maemo/Packages/maemo3/armel/ruby1.8-maemo_0.3.0-1_maemo3_armel.deb
(maemo / Nokia N800 / N810)
Granted it’s possibly somewhat harder for OSX, partially due to the old
GTK installed by default.
OTOH, one time I tried to track down all the Tk dependencies for
Win32 … maybe that’s also fixed now.
Anyway, personal prejudices aside, there’s a pretty good comparison of
UI toolkits at http://kylecordes.com/2007/03/31/ruby-gui-toolkits/
-jonathan
In message DqT%[email protected], ulazar
[email protected] writes
I would like to create an interface GUI with ruby. What I have to use?
I would like that the GUI could be used in win, osx and linux. Is there
a good interface builder?
I suggest you check out wxRuby. There are several interface builders -
free and commercial. DialogBlocks w/ the wxWidgets XRC resource systems
seems to be liked.
HTH
Alec
Jonathan H. wrote:
Anyway, personal prejudices aside, there’s a pretty good comparison of
UI toolkits at http://kylecordes.com/2007/03/31/ruby-gui-toolkits/
…which is already dated. Some GUI toolkits have evolved alot during
the last half-year.
I would recommend that you try the latest versions of all the toolkits
and see which of them is most likely to fit your needs.
Best regards,
Jari W.
ulazar wrote:
I would like to create an interface GUI with ruby. What I have to use? I
would like that the GUI could be used in win, osx and linux. Is there a
good interface builder?
I had good success with qtruby. I had been using qt 3.5.x and kdevelop.
Although my focus was entirely on linux it also seems to also run on win
and osx.
Regards
Werner
FireAphis wrote:
easier to create). I’ve personally chosen GTK2.
Check this out:
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgiRegarding a good interface builder I have much less experience. I code
the interface definitions myself.FireAphis
If I am to lazy to write it myself (particually a problem with C++…
hehe) I
usually use QT Designer to create the GUI and make use of tools from
qtruby to
convert it into Ruby code (rather then C++). Test it and when it’s ‘good
enough’ I start work on prototyping the implementation code.
I like GTK+ programs but I have never used it for programming beyond
tutorials
in C though. So I wouldn’t know much about how GTK+ works with Ruby.
Cheers.
Shoes although quiet new, looks like a really fun GUI toolkit to use.
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/
And the code is compatible for all three platforms you require.
I’ve used shoes and straight GTK2 for for ruby. Both are great
options, but I lean more towards GTK (sorry why). Mind you I’ve done
only the simplest of guis for my ruby stuff so far 
I’ve never used glade with it though… Can you use the standard
glade interface designer for ruby-glade apps?
–Kyle
On Nov 18, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Piyush R. wrote:
Shoes although quiet new, looks like a really fun GUI toolkit to use.
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/
And the code is compatible for all three platforms you require.
Does it have good support for Mac OS X PPC? I know that it works on
Intel, but last time I checked, PPC was still non functional.
On 19/11/2007, thefed [email protected] wrote:
On Nov 18, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Piyush R. wrote:
Shoes although quiet new, looks like a really fun GUI toolkit to use.
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/
And the code is compatible for all three platforms you require.Does it have good support for Mac OS X PPC? I know that it works on
Intel, but last time I checked, PPC was still non functional.
There are PPC/universal builds. But unless you test it yourself you
can’t tell if it’s good enough 
Thanks
Michal
Hello,
Kyle S. schrieb:
I’ve never used glade with it though… Can you use the standard
glade interface designer for ruby-glade apps?
yes you can, the Glade Interface Designer creates standard
.glade-XML-files which can be used by all(?) GTK implementations such as
the ruby one. For the ruby one you can simply “click” your design and
chose the events and afterwards you can use the script
“ruby-glade-create-template” which is included into the ruby gnome2
package to create a default ruby file with included .glade file and
Gettext support. The events are predefined as methods so you only have
to type in what should be done when clicking a button for example.
In my opinion thats really easy!
Janek
On Nov 19, 2007 12:11 PM, Janek T. [email protected] wrote:
“ruby-glade-create-template” which is included into the ruby gnome2
package to create a default ruby file with included .glade file and
Gettext support. The events are predefined as methods so you only have
to type in what should be done when clicking a button for example.
In my opinion thats really easy!Janek
Very nice. I’ll have to try that for my next project!
Thanks.
–Kyle