# Question about GUI toolkit

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-gui-toolkit/120561>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 18, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-gui-toolkit/120561 "2007-11-18T15:13:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![blitzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@blitzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blitzer)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-gui-toolkit/120561/1 "2007-11-18T15:13:30Z")

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I want suggest about gui tool kit for ruby

I use ‘tk’ but it’s seem simple then I search about that and found many  
toolkit

I see ‘gtk’ but I don’t know it can use with window??  
why I use it, it seem problem about output font

and do you think what tool kit is good for window??

thank you

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**Author:** ![blitzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@blitzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blitzer)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-gui-toolkit/120561/2 "2007-11-18T16:26:40Z")

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Pat K. wrote:

> I want suggest about gui tool kit for ruby
> 
> I use ‘tk’ but it’s seem simple then I search about that and found many  
> toolkit
> 
> I see ‘gtk’ but I don’t know it can use with window??  
> why I use it, it seem problem about output font
> 
> and do you think what tool kit is good for window??
> 
> thank you

I’ve had good results with the wxRuby toolkit on Windows:

> **[Getting Started with the wxRuby GUI Toolkit](http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2007/11/getting-started-with-wxruby-gui-toolkit.html)**
>
> Many readers have asked "What is the best GUI toolkit?". There is no single answer to this question, and I won't try to lobby for my GUI of ...

[http://www.prodevtips.com/2007/10/16/simple-wxruby-app](http://www.prodevtips.com/2007/10/16/simple-wxruby-app)

David

> **[Ruby on Windows](http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com)**
>
> On using the Ruby programming language on the Microsoft Windows platform

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**Author:** ![blitzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@blitzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blitzer)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-gui-toolkit/120561/3 "2007-11-18T16:25:46Z")

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Pat K. wrote:

> thank you  
> Sawat Dee Krap, Khun Pat

I had good success with qtruby. Qt is the toolkit underlying KDE and it  
is available for Windows.  
It is free for non-commercial use. Please read the license to see if it  
fits your requirements.  
[http://trolltech.com/products/qt](http://trolltech.com/products/qt)

Regards  
Werner

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**Author:** ![blitzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@blitzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blitzer)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-gui-toolkit/120561/4 "2007-11-18T16:32:12Z")

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Hello,

I really like that toolkit - it have a very nice and comfortable GUI  
editor (Glade), is very good integrated in Ruby with Gnome2-Ruby and  
easy to learn. But for windows it’s not the best I think: Yes, it works  
with windows. But it’s not really well integrated. Do you use Pidgin,  
Gajim, Gimp or something like this (All those application use GTK) with  
Windows? If yes I think you know what I mean.  
Also it’s not really fast when you use windows cause you have to load  
GTK which is within Linux with Gnome already done.

I think wxRuby is bether for multi platform compatibility and native  
look and feel also for Mac OS X. But I was unable to find a GUI editor  
which is so good as the Glade of GTK and it was more difficult for me to  
understand it as an beginner. Maybe it’s the best to try both or these  
both and more like FxRuby etc.

foxx

Pat K. schrieb:

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**Author:** ![blitzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@blitzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blitzer)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-gui-toolkit/120561/5 "2007-11-18T20:42:34Z")

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thx you I’m use wxRuby now!!

and I have some problem about this 😢

[http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/132067#new](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/132067#new)