GUI for MacOS X?

[Nigel Gilbert]

Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I have been googling for a long time,
and failed to find a clear answer:

Is there any working, 'out of the box' cross-platform GUI library that
will work with MacOS X 10.2.x for Ruby (i.e. not requiring X11)? Am I
right in thinking that Tk still has unresolved problems on MacOS X, and
that there is no implementation of GTK+ and Fox for MacOS X? Are there
other possibilities?


Nigel

 

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi,

Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I have been googling for a long time,
and failed to find a clear answer:

Is there any working, 'out of the box' cross-platform GUI library that
will work with MacOS X 10.2.x for Ruby (i.e. not requiring X11)? Am I
right in thinking that Tk still has unresolved problems on MacOS X, and
that there is no implementation of GTK+ and Fox for MacOS X? Are there
other possibilities?

What about RubyCocoa?

http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/index.en.html

I used to develop with Cocoa/Java, and Ruby's API looks better (in fact,
everything looks better in Ruby) ;-)

HTH,

 

[Yvon Thoraval]

I believe that he's looking for a cross-platform solution, which Cocoa
is not.

is there a Gtk-Ruby working on MacOS X ???

 

[Yvon Thoraval]

Not natively; that is, GTK+ runs on Mac OS X under an X server (as does
FOX).

I never was able to finish compiling it yet without errors ???

I did find a project to port GTK+ 1.x to OS X (see
http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net) but it doesn't sound like a port to GTK+
2.x is in their plans.

Might be interesting if upgrading afterwards to Gtk+2 isn't too heavy.