Re: Ada / Automation fellows

[David Botton <david@botton.com>]

> > It's HTML, SVG, JavaScript... and I was impressed by the achievement.
> 
> I am not a fan of Web-based automation systems. It does not feel good. It
> does not properly separate control and UI, which is a big step back to me.

With Gnoga there is no issue doing that since the web page is just a "canvas" for the UI, there is no need to wedge in stateless static web page paradigms in to your UI.

> Maybe Gnoga can change that, some day. I don't know.

I'd think already has :)

> > I was wondering how to put this on top of AWS and learning how to draw
> > with Inkscape when Mister Botton came with Gnoga, pushing my wheel
> > further...
> > Gnoga seems to fit perfectly in my project and I guess we can use AICWL
> > when high refresh rate is required for example. I still need to figure out
> > how to connect easily the GUI, SVG and the logic.

You can mix Gtk and Gnoga use libwebkit2gtk widgets (see the native GTK docs in the gnoga distro).

> 
> Cairo fully supports SVG surfaces (AICWL is based on Cairo). AFAIK, David
> planned to experiment with this in Gnoga...

You can use Cairo with Gnoga (the Cairo bindings removing GtkAda deps are available at http://gnoga.com/#market ).

I'll be visiting again AICWL in Gnoga once I have a direct Gnoga -> libwebkit2gtk connection working (i.e. not using websockets, but actual calls directly in to the JavaScript from Ada/C).

David Botton