Re: [FR-devel] Please Review the GUI Core

[Horacio Lopez]

I considered the idea of building a toolkit-independent

GUI layer for FreeRIDE, and it looks like you have

been following more or less the same line of thought.

 

Did you try Locana ?   http://www.locana.org

it's about the same idea.

It's from the same guy who wrote ArunaDb.

He still doesn't support GTK and FXRuby but

the framework is already laid out and it already

works with some sort of Win32 native toolkit

and also TK.

 

I am not completely sure this is the way FreeRIDE

should go, but at least it guarantees some

portability until we come up with something better.

 

I also thought of other ideas, like creating an

even higher level of abstraction, but it would

probably end up looking miserably awful.

 

 

I am going to have a look at your Wiki, maybe

there's some overlapping with other ideas.

 

 

cheers,

         vruz

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Curt Hibbs

To: Freeride-Devel

Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:13 AM

Subject: [FR-devel] Please Review the GUI Core

If you're like me and you regularly look at the "Recent Changes" page of our wiki, then you probably already know that I've been working on a "GUI Core" design document:

 

    http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GUIFrameworkProject/GUICore

 

It has progressed a little more slowly than I would have liked (too many other things competing for my attention), but there is enough there already to give you a feeling for the approach I am taking. The basic architectural ideas are written up and mostly what is left to do is to fill out the details on the GUI components.

 

One of the primary goals is to create an easy-to-use interface to the FreeRIDE GUI system that is independent of any particular rendering system (FOX, GTK+, etc).

 

Please take a look and feed me your comments and questions.

 

Curt