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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aca1259beaaf752f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-02 14:41:41 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GUI development: Windex vs. GTK vs. Anything else Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 22:31:51 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3A5256D7.9602604B@brighton.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-b4.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 978474291 24162 194.81.199.184 (2 Jan 2001 22:24:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Jan 2001 22:24:51 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3587 Date: 2001-01-02T22:24:51+00:00 List-Id: Jesse Farmer wrote: > I'm looking for opinions on what to use for developing a GUI for an > application that is intended to be developed across Win, Mac, and Linux > platforms. This application will quite likely need some specialized gui > work, so standard widgets won't get it entirely done. Give us a clue? What would you need beside buttons, checkboxes, editboxes, all the "standard widgets" stuff? What level of composability are you after here? > Best approach? Use api bindings like Windex and the respective binding for > Mac, and Xwindows-gnome stuff? > Or try using GTK since it is supported across all of those platforms? > > It should be obvious that the application in question is being coded in Ada. > Windows in the primary development target, all others are secondary > concerns. Hmm. Can look at http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je/jewl/, but at present this is Windows only (JDK for jgnat is in progress, but very early days yet!) and it provides only "standard widgets". > Any advice would be welcome! So would more clues... :-) Happy new millenium! ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------