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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38d1fe109cd56c87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE Date: 1999/11/23 Message-ID: <1999Nov23.091743.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 552067024 References: <383985C6.F36C0D0C@icn.siemens.de> X-Trace: news.decus.org 943366670 6873 KILGALLEN [216.44.122.34] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) writes: > If you want to write graphical applications for X-Windows then you > need a binding to either X itself (ie. Xlib), or a toolkit (ie. Motif, > GTK, QT etc.). > > X-Windows is a scary and mystical place, where men are men and Orcs > have 18 HD each[1]. Don't go there. While I don't do raw graphics (plotting splines in a window), the combination of X-Windows and Motif is quite reasonable for doing GUIs. I recently added a GUI to a new program that would otherwise have been only text-based. The process was relatively painless and the results were much better than the text-based interface (which still exists for systems on which X-Windows is not installed). Larry Kilgallen