Re: GUI Builder

["DuckE" <nospam_steved@pacifier.com>]

"Brian Rogoff" <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.BSF.4.21.0005271019490.21891-100000@shell5.ba.best.com...
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, DuckE wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Steve,
>     In order to go from the current state to some better state, it might
> be helpful for you to provide a list of things that you'd like in an Ada
> GUI building tool, rather than a dismissive "They all suck compared to
> Delphi and VB". That way the tool builders have something concrete to
> shoot for.
>

What I want?

Start with GLADE and GtkAda on Win32.

Make every dialog box in the GUI builder environment work.

Make every component in the GUI builder environment work.

Don't require a console window to be running in the background while my GUI
app runs.

Don't let the GUI builder crash while I'm designing screens.

Get rid of the console window in the background of the GUI builder while I'm
designing my interface.

Give the ability to modify the GUI after generating the code and
automatically merge my existing code with the changes.

Do I really need to send this list to someone?  I thought it was obvious.

SteveD


>     From my POV, Delphi and VB suck. I work in the VLSI design realm, and
> if it doesn't run on Unix it ain't worth using. Well, that's not strictly
> true (FPGAs, schematic capture tools, etc) but its true for the most part.
>
> -- Brian
>
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