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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c72ce603711bd113 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Stanley R. Allen" Subject: Re: portable GUI , Ada backend, best design? Date: 1998/02/05 Message-ID: <34D9FF88.41C6@hso.link.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 323524923 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <69s0vf$aao@drn.zippo.com> <34C1C729.F9B@online.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mike Bartman wrote: > > nma123@super.zippo.com wrote: > > > I looking at using Ada (GNAT) for the analysis and computational part > > of the system, using Ada insures portability for the backend side. > > > > The problem is what to use for the GUI part. the GUI part is for entering > > user input, the parameters for the analysis part, so it is not very advanced > > GUI, but it had to be portable. > > Why not use X-windows as the GUI? > > [slice] -- good arguments for X as a GUI for PCs > Another alternative: use Tcl/Tk and its associated Ada binding (TASH) for the portable GUI. This is a seriously underappreciated technology. A Tcl/Tk interpreter can be "embedded" into your C or Ada application. Tcl/Tk has been ported to multiple platforms. -- Stanley Allen mailto:s_allen@hso.link.com