T
Tabor Kelly
Hello,
My apologies if this is a silly question. I have never written a game
before and I have never used a GUI toolkit before. I am an accomplished
programmer (at things like HTTP proxy servers), and a senior in a
Computer Science program.
I want to write a simple asteroids style game that will run on both my
FreeBSD box, and my brother's Windows box. I want to use Ruby because I
really want to learn Ruby, partially so I can try out RAILS. I want to
write a clone of an old DOS game I can remember playing, but I can't
remember the name of it.
Anyway, I will need simple 2D animation. So, what will work for this? I
heat GTK+ is nice to code for with Ruby, but it looks like the Win32
port for GTK+ is kind of unstable (please correct me if I am wrong). I
have heard that TK is a little painful to program with, but is _very_
cross platform (again, correct me if I am wrong). How about FOX? Will
these GUI toolkits even work, or should I be looking at SDL?
Thank You in advance.
My apologies if this is a silly question. I have never written a game
before and I have never used a GUI toolkit before. I am an accomplished
programmer (at things like HTTP proxy servers), and a senior in a
Computer Science program.
I want to write a simple asteroids style game that will run on both my
FreeBSD box, and my brother's Windows box. I want to use Ruby because I
really want to learn Ruby, partially so I can try out RAILS. I want to
write a clone of an old DOS game I can remember playing, but I can't
remember the name of it.
Anyway, I will need simple 2D animation. So, what will work for this? I
heat GTK+ is nice to code for with Ruby, but it looks like the Win32
port for GTK+ is kind of unstable (please correct me if I am wrong). I
have heard that TK is a little painful to program with, but is _very_
cross platform (again, correct me if I am wrong). How about FOX? Will
these GUI toolkits even work, or should I be looking at SDL?
Thank You in advance.