Re: GUI was Re: why Ada is so unpopular ?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Preben Randhol" <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote in
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> On 2004-01-20, Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
> > Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote:
> >:> that available from Adobe. This could then serve as a foundation to
host
> >:> XForms.
> >:
> >: Why would we want to use a library that *only* works on one OS. I
> >: thought the point was a *portable* library.
> >
> > XForms is intended to be not only "portable" but also abstract.
>
> I wasn't talking about xforms. I was commenting on that one could use
> CLAWS

I think he was talking about the abstract design of CLAW, not the
windows-specific implementation.

Something like it, with the Windows-specific stuff filed off, would make a
very decent basis for a higher-level, portable GUI library. We've looked at
doing that for the sockets portion, and it isn't too hard. It would be
harder, of course, to do it for the rest of it, but by no means impossible.

                   Randy.