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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffe4fb1477fe67e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: ezkcdude Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice Date: 8 May 2007 08:27:27 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1178638047.133001.115090@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> References: <1178212418.538270.283700@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1178635220.859690.3310@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <4640923B.7060409@obry.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.147.3.25 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1178638052 8478 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2007 15:27:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 15:27:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <4640923B.7060409@obry.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=169.147.3.25; posting-account=UbN39Q0AAADjt_3dTnzY1z4Qc9xnXw4K Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15642 Date: 2007-05-08T08:27:27-07:00 List-Id: 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?