Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice

[ezkcdude <zamir.evan@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Pascal. Here are my responses.

>
> I don't understand that, did you really had a look at GtkAda (some have
> commented that they don't like it, fine) ?

Dmitry and others commented on this in this thread.

>GPS is developed with it,
> looks like GtkAda is quite capable...

It's not so much look, but the ease of doing it. For example, I would
like something like the GUI builders you can find in NetBeans. Glade
is similar, but then you have the XML stuff, which seems like even
more overhead to learn. I noticed that the version of glade bundled
with GtkAda in GPS is not the most current version. The current
version of Glade does not output source code, only XML.

> Another solution for Ada is to use
> AWS, the Ada application can then be accessed with a standard browser.
> This of course impose that the GUI be not too "fancy", yet with the
> AWS/Ajax support there is still some nice GUI to build.

I really don't want to get into web programming. That would be even
more languages to learn.

>
> Everything is possible :) Java GUI are so ugly that I won't even
> consider this a solution. At least GtkAda as native look&feel (not 100%
> ok but far better than Java).

I am not really concerned with looks. Most important are 1)
functionality 2) performance and 3) ease of programming. Java really
seems to have the upper hand in #3. Is this not the case?