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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Binding or not binding
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On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:41:07 GMT, Björn Persson wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:25:50 +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:
>> 
>>> Another example, do you think it would have been wise to recode the Gtk+
>>> library in Ada... certainly not :)
>> 
>> I wouldn't be so sure. In a long term perspective it certainly makes
>> sense. Fighting GTK+ costs too much time. GUI libraries have too much
>> influence on software design to leave them outside Ada. If Ada only had a
>> quasi-standard GUI library, portable, task-safe, designed for and in
>> Ada...
> 
> I wonder if it would make sense to make a hybrid, or maybe I should call it
> an ultra-thick binding. That is, to design an API that makes sense for Ada,
> and write the specifications without regard to any other library, but then
> internally use a portable library like GTK+, QT or WXwidgets – or low-level
> parts of it – to put things on the screen and take care of the
> cross-platform issues.

It could turn even more difficult than to design, say, GTK+ from scratch.
At this level we will have to abstract widgets, styles, resources rather
than events, drawing contexts, pixels, fonts, pens of the lover level.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de