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=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID,RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e1645f8e05eb2836 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "David Botton" Subject: Re: Ada free RAD tools development Date: 1999/01/29 Message-ID: <01be4bd7$01e52980$0a18b70a@DBHP>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 438502404 References: <01be4b2d$c172f2a0$0a18b70a@DBHP> <36B1C91F.192E0C4D@t-online.de> Organization: CyberGate, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Why, because I want an Ada solution that I can write C/C++ bindings too :) 1. GTK + Ada bindings wasn't available for Win32 when I started 2. It still isn't available for the Java Virtual Machine 3. I bet I make it to the JVM before GTK does 4. To port the classes I am working on to other systems (OS/2, Mac, whatever) will be a sinch. 5. These classes are smaller and faster. 6. I want to be able to easily extend the classes, etc. in Ada 7. I wanted complete control over the look and feel from with in Ada, ie. I want to paint my own controls using Ada. 8. I wanted to write my own frame work for fun! 9. I want to prove that Ada can not only do it, but better. 10. The people who wrote GTK are proud they did it in C 11. GTK doesn't support ActiveX controls on Win32 If I think about it some more, I'm sure I can come up with some other reasons too. In fact, I can't come up with any reasons not to write a brand new set of classes in Ada that are cross platform and OpenSource. It is about time Ada showed that it can play ball too. David Botton Juergen Pfeifer wrote in article <36B1C91F.192E0C4D@t-online.de>... > Why don't you simply use the GTK bindings for the GUI stuff?! It runs on all UNIXes > and is currently ported to Win32. So you'll have a consistent look-and-feel. > > Juergen >