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From: "DuckE" <nospam_steved@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: GUI Builder
Date: 2000/05/27
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"Robert Dewar" <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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[snip]
>
> That being said, I have see demos of people using GLADE (not
> even mentioned above, but I assume you have used it), which
> are pretty impressive in terms of churning out a simple
> interface fast.
>

Although I didn't mention GLADE, of the Ada GUI builders I've worked with it
appears to be the closest to "showtime".  But as it says in the
documentation, it is not stable on Win32.

My second vote would be for CLAW.  Their demo looks promising, but is buggy.

FYI: Most of the real work of our applications are in Ada.  Our user
interfaces are primarily in Delphi.  We communicate between the two using
our own publish subscribe architechture that runs on TCP/IP sockets.

I would like nothing more than to use Ada for the user interfaces as well,
but to date I haven't seen what I would describe as an appropriate tool.
Yes I know that you can build user win32 user interfaces without GUI
builders, but it is not very productive.

Maybe next year...  I keep looking.

SteveD