On 10/7/06, John Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Luke doesn't seem to be able to open a Ferret index I've created. Is > this expected? > > If yes, can someone recommend another index inspection tool? > > Thanks, > John
Yes, that is expected. Jens Kraemer implemented an inspection tool a while back except it doesn't work with the latest version of Ferret. It is based on GTK. I played with it a bit earlier this week and got it to work with the latest version of Ferret's indexes but it still needs a little more testing. I'm also concerned about the portability of this solution. It won't work on OS X without X server installed. I looked at a few of the other gui options briefly but I still haven't decided on the best option. These were my first impressions but please feel free to correct me. I won't be offended. * Tk: very portable but some of the widgets I really wanted where missing like tabbed panes. A lot of people seem to complain about it being ugly I think you can fix this by installing the Tile theming engine for Tk. * QtRuby: We'd need to use Qt4 because of licencing issues on Windows. I had trouble even installing Qt4 which doesn't bode well for it and there is currently no binary gem for windows. I don't want to deal with that problem again. Other than that, QtRuby looks really nice. * WxRuby: Again no binary gem but it has the widgets I need and it looks pretty good because it uses native widgets. I couldn't really find my way around the documentation though. I wanted to quick tutorial to show me how everything works. * FLTK: There are bindings for this in Ruby but I actually found it easy to use FLTK straight from C. I quite liked this solution because FLTK is light enough that I could possibly package FLTK up in the package. Also, FLUID is a great GUI builder. Anyway, I only looked at each of these GUIs briefly. What do other people think an inspection tool should be built with? Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
