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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f2cd66a22cddc54c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-14 06:24:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.algonet.se!algonet!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!217.209.241.173.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Holm Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FLTK and Ada? Message-ID: <20030814152258.5048361c.david@realityrift.com> References: X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:24:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.208.105.88 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1060867475 217.208.105.88 (Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:24:35 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:24:35 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41447 Date: 2003-08-14T13:24:35+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Preben Randhol wrote: > Freejack wrote: > > I've been looking around for a nifty little GUI toolkit for use in my > > little project here. > > > > I've looked at GTKAda and QT, TASH, yadda yadda yadda. > > And why don't you want to use GtkAda? > > > I've since come across FLTK(Fast Light Toolkit). It's quite stable, makes > > really tiny executables, and actually looks halfway decent. > > I think it looks rather ugly. Looks might be totally irrelevant depending on the specifications for the application you are developing. > > Has anyone here played with FLTK? > > No and I never will. Your loss. > > Any opinions on it? > > There are a ton of different GUI toolsets out there. The problem is that > most are half hearted attempts and some die out as they do not get used. > It is also better to use one of the more established GUIs as they are > better tested and have more backing for further development. FLTK is becoming rather popular and I definately don't think this is a dying project. As for maturity you should also compare it to code complexity. > > It is designed to be statically linked. Yet the resulting binaries(the > > ones that I've seen) rarely exceed 300-400kb. I've seen nice GUIs in FLTK > > come in under 20kb. > > So what? Have you heard of something called embedded systems? Your specification might enforce strict requirements when it comes to memory-usage. Would you sacrifice memory just because you want the application to look good? If so you might find it difficult to get a job working with Ada. > > Any suggestions? > > Use GtkAda. Use whatever fits your project best. [snip] //David Holm