# Gui designer **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 17, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gui-designer/179081 "2009-11-17T10:11:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chewybits)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gui-designer/179081/1 "2009-11-17T10:11:22Z")
I’m looking for something like glade that I can use in windows. I like the wxruby from what I’ve read and hope that they’re is a designer for it. Any ideas? Netbeans? ---
**Author:** ![chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chewybits)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gui-designer/179081/2 "2009-11-17T11:30:06Z")
Ashley Bar wrote: > I’m looking for something like glade that I can use in windows. I like > the wxruby from what I’ve read and hope that they’re is a designer for > it. Any ideas? Netbeans? The only GUI designer for wx I know about is wxFormBuilder ( [GitHub - wxFormBuilder/wxFormBuilder: A wxWidgets GUI Builder](http://wxformbuilder.org/?page_id=21) ), but it looks like it can’t produce Ruby output, only C++ and Python. But don’t be afraid, it isn’t that hard to learn, just another gem 😉 Have a look here: [Ruby on Windows: Getting Started with the wxRuby GUI Toolkit](http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2007/11/getting-started-with-wxruby-gui-toolkit.html) But if you’re using Ruby 1.9 you should use gem install wxruby-ruby19 rather than gem install wxruby If you get a windows-95-style GUI, see here: [Ruby on Windows: Windows XP Visual Style Controls with wxRuby](http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2007/10/windows-xp-visual-style-controls-with.html) and for Vista: [Visual styles in Windows Vista? - wxRuby - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/190390#new) . The documentation and a short tutorial is available here: [http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/](http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/) . Besides that, wxRuby comes with a huge amount of example scripts on how to use a specific control (or widget, if you like…). Marvin ---
**Author:** ![chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chewybits)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gui-designer/179081/3 "2009-11-17T14:42:42Z")
Ashley Bar wrote: > I’m looking for something like glade that I can use in windows. I like > the wxruby from what I’ve read and hope that they’re is a designer for > it. Any ideas? Netbeans? Netbeans has a nice GUI designer for Java that will work in JRuby apps. Likewise Xcode for RubyCocoa, but that won’t run on Windows. ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chewybits)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gui-designer/179081/4 "2009-11-17T15:00:10Z")
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 18:11 +0900, Ashley Bar wrote: > I’m looking for something like glade that I can use in windows. I like > the wxruby from what I’ve read and hope that they’re is a designer for > it. Any ideas? Netbeans? why not glade for windows… [http://www.google.com/search?q=glade+for+windows&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.gentoo:en-US:official&client=firefox-a](http://www.google.com/search?q=glade+for+windows&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.gentoo:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) ---
**Author:** ![chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chewybits)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gui-designer/179081/5 "2009-11-18T03:16:27Z")
Hi all I am new to ruby. I want to use Ruby GUI, but I am confused for there are so many choice: TK, Fox, wxRuby… What is the difference between them? I just want make a simple window which can input and pop dialog. Thank you so much Your Sincerely James Wang ---
**Author:** ![chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chewybits)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gui-designer/179081/6 "2009-11-19T01:07:32Z")
wangxin 46853 wrote: > Hi all > > I am new to ruby. I want to use Ruby GUI, but I am confused for there are so many choice: TK, Fox, wxRuby… > What is the difference between them? I just want make a simple window which can input and pop dialog. > Thank you so much Search the list archives for a very recent thread, “Ruby GUI Libs” Should help, and might avoid having the same GUI discussion every month. – James B. [www.jamesbritt.com](http://www.jamesbritt.com) - Playing with Better Toys [www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation [www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff [www.neurogami.com](http://www.neurogami.com) - Smart application development ---
**Author:** ![chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chewybits)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gui-designer/179081/7 "2009-11-19T02:33:08Z")
James B. wrote: > wangxin 46853 wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I am new to ruby. I want to use Ruby GUI, but I am confused for there are so many choice: TK, Fox, wxRuby… > > What is the difference between them? I just want make a simple window which can input and pop dialog. > > Thank you so much > > Search the list archives for a very recent thread, “Ruby GUI Libs” > > Should help, and might avoid having the same GUI discussion every month. > > – > James B. > > [www.jamesbritt.com](http://www.jamesbritt.com) - Playing with Better Toys > [www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation > [www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff > [www.neurogami.com](http://www.neurogami.com) - Smart application development Which was taken into consideration. Perhaps I have poor searching methods. Is they’re anyway to sticky this topic? I don’t always have internet access, so it is lengthy to read everything about ruby in one sitting, which is why I love forums so much, guaranteed that someone has already asked the same question or is wondering the same thing. Thanks for all the replies! ---
**Author:** ![chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chewybits)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gui-designer/179081/8 "2009-11-19T04:58:08Z")
Ashley Bar wrote: > Which was taken into consideration. Perhaps I have poor searching > methods. Is they’re anyway to sticky this topic? I don’t always have > internet access, so it is lengthy to read everything about ruby in one > sitting, which is why I love forums so much, BTW, you are posting and reading a mailing list that happens to be mirrored to a Web forum. So every post adds a bit of overhead. > guaranteed that someone has > already asked the same question or is wondering the same thing. This may help: [http://is.gd/4YtBD](http://is.gd/4YtBD) It’s a search of the google group copy of the mailing list. There’s also a FAQ of sorts up on github, but github is having server failures :(. James ---
**Author:** ![chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@chewybits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chewybits)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gui-designer/179081/9 "2009-11-19T00:06:23Z")
wangxin 46853 wrote: > Hi all > > I am new to ruby. I want to use Ruby GUI, but I am confused for there > are so many choice: TK, Fox, wxRuby… > What is the difference between them? I just want make a simple window > which can input and pop dialog. > Thank you so much > > Your Sincerely > James Wang I like wxRuby because I use different Operating Systems and different Desktops that use different guitoolkits(qt,gtk,windows). Why I like it is because the finished wxRuby will look native to each toolkits. However I have no experience, this is only an opinion on researching ruby. hope this helps you.