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From: Srini - <rasikasrinivasan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GTKADA Installation Questions
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
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On Oct 11, 3:35 am, "Paul" <pcas1...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:56:30 GMT, Paul wrote:
>
> > > So my question is should I be installing GTKADA "on top" of GNAT so
> > > that the duplicated directories overlap?  The installation process
> > > doesn't imply that this is a useful thing to do.
>
> > Directories are duplicated intentionally. On Windows GNAT GPS comes
> > with a version of GtkAda + Gtk it needs to work. GtkAda is a
> > distribution of its own, with some version of Gtk, not necessarily
> > same. You can also install a newer version of Gtk (Glib, Pango etc)
> > from some third source. If you also installed GIMP that would be a
> > fourth Gtk on your computer.
>
> > It is up to you to make them co-existing. Usually I overwrite
> > GtkAda's lib with newer versions (2.14.6 or so) and put GIMP's bin
> > before GNAT and GtkAda in the PATH.
>
> > P.S. I would not care about tutorial examples, because in my view they
> > aren't much useful.
>
> > I would rather suggest:
>
> > 1. In order to understand how Gtk works:
>
> >http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk-tutorial/stable
>
> > 2. For advanced, swampy, nasty Gtk issues:
>
> >http://scentric.net/tutorial/treeview-tutorial.html
> >http://www.gnome.org/~federico/misc/gtk-drawing-model/index.html
>
> > 3. Last, but not least, the excellent GtkAda reference manual
>
> >http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/gtkada-docs/gtkada
> > _rm/gtkada_rm/index.html
>
> > P.P.S. It would be nice if somebody took care of packaging GtkAda
> > under Windows, because this is an issue faced by every new user of
> > GtkAda.  AdaCore seems to update GtkAda once per year, which is a too
> > slow pace compared with the heartbeat of Gtk.
>
> Thanks Dmitry
>
> Rgds Paul
>
> --

also under preparation is a series of simple GtkAda (actually Ada GUI.
Qt and GtkAda. more to come) examples are available at:

https://projectlets.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/projectlets/


thanks, srini