On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Mathew Cucuzella<[email protected]> wrote: > A few things you should seriously consider first. > > 1. Like Etienne described very well, check out your API's first. I would say > this includes the GUI. My fairly small program works great under Linux, but > crashes all the time under Windows. I don't think Windows support is really > there yet. > 2. If Windows support is improved in the upcoming version, I think that will > be based on the next Ruby version, so make sure you don't have any > incompatibilities there either. > 3. I think _why has pretty much said that Shoes is more of a drawing > platform than a forms-input style application platform. Make sure you have > all the form elements you need (e.g., no drop-down boxes). It doesn't look > to be a safe bet that Shoes will be going in toward form styled applications > in the future.
The list_box element IS a drop-down box, or are you talking about something else? > > Otherwise of course, its very easy to pick up and fun to use. > > -mat > > 2009/8/11 Manuel Souto Pico <[email protected]> >> >> Hello!! >> >> I'm thinking about using Ruby/Shoes (everything other than Shoes.app is >> Ruby, right?) to develop a GUI that takes input from user and interacts with >> another program's API to create some files according to the user's selected >> options (yes/no, list items, some paths to files... edit_lines?, etc.). It >> seems Shoes could do the job. However, before starting I need to know >> whether it's possible to convert the final program to a executable file >> (program.exe) that I can distribute to Windows users for them to run it >> clicking on it without the need to have Ruby or Shoes installed. How can I >> do that? How easy is it? How well does it work? >> >> I hope you can answer this basic question. Thanks a lot and keep it cool
