Posts Tagged ‘GUI’
2009
12.18
Tags: Code, Component, GUI, OO, Ruby, Toolkit
Posted in Ruby | No Comments »
Ruby is incredibly adaptable to a multitude of environments, operating systems and GUI toolkits. It can become cumbersome to procrastinators like me who tend to be in search for the one true way to fit it all. Note that I call it unified ruby GUI vs standard ruby GUI, because I don’t think that a true standard toolkit would make the world happy. My humble expectations are:
- can be installed as gem and uses gem
- supports*: windows, mac os x, gnome, kde, web-interface
- *using the preferred toolkit** of that platform
- **no other dependencies should be added
- simple things should be simple
- complicated things should be possible
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2009
05.28
Tags: Component, GUI, Inox, OO, Part 5, Ruby, Ruby Inox, Toolkit
Posted in Ruby | No Comments »
We are steering toward a graphical user interface. In this article we lay out the firt visual stone, the Widget or more precisely the class WidgetBase.
A major cleanup of the code written so far is already planned and notice that these minor changes will be reflected only on github and no article will be posted until Inox becomes useable/stable.
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2009
05.22
Tags: Component, GUI, Inox, OO, Part 5, Ruby, Ruby Inox, Toolit
Posted in Ruby | No Comments »
Something promised is something due. Only two days have passed since my last post, Ruby Inox Part4: Property. Two days human time span is like a decade of internet time span. Some bits stayed the same and some changed. Notable changes were made to the module Actions and the module Properties, stepping closer to the final goal.
In this article its all about Components!
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