From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aca1259beaaf752f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-02 14:11:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!213.56.195.71!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "David Botton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GUI development: Windex vs. GTK vs. Anything else Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:18:31 -0500 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: <00d901c07509$f0e886a0$f8ffa8c0@dbdell2000> References: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 978473462 94440 137.194.161.2 (2 Jan 2001 22:11:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:11:02 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-pair-Authenticated: 63.161.15.130 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3580 Date: 2001-01-02T17:18:31-05:00 Your multi-platform choices are GtkAda (www.adapower.com/gtkada) or TASH (www.adatcl.com). Both have GUI builders (TASH has more the one). Both Modified GPL. For Win32 development your best bets are CLAW (www.rrsoftware.com) or GWindows (www.adapower.com/gwindows), with GWindows having a Modified GPL lic. What sort of specialized GUI work are you referring to? David Botton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Farmer" > Sub. says most of it. > I'm looking for opinions on what to use for developing a GUI for an > application that is intended to be developed across Win, Mac, and Linux > platforms. This application will quite likely need some specialized gui > work, so standard widgets won't get it entirely done. > > Best approach? Use api bindings like Windex and the respective binding for > Mac, and Xwindows-gnome stuff? > Or try using GTK since it is supported across all of those platforms? > > It should be obvious that the application in question is being coded in Ada. > Windows in the primary development target, all others are secondary > concerns. > > Any advice would be welcome! > -Jesse Farmer