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From: Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GtkAda 1.2.11
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:37:26 -0800
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Does the windows version work?  I download GtkAda-1.3.11.exe and 
nothing happens when I run it.  From the command line (WinNT 4.0 SP6)
it says can't be run in DOS mode. From the desktop, an apparently 
blank console windos appears and vanishes in a fraction of a second.


Al


Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> 
> GtkAda 1.2.11 release
> ---------------------
> 
> GtkAda is an Ada95 graphical toolkit based on Gtk+ version >= 1.2.2. It
> allows you to develop graphical applications in Ada95 using Gtk+.
> 
> The primary download site is http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda
> 
> New features in 1.2.11 include:
> 
> - Support for GNOME is detected and handled automatically by configure
> - Many additional GNOME widgets bound (but are provided as is: they have not
>   been tested).
> - A new utility is provided to ease the automatic generation of bindings for
>   new Gtk+/GNOME widgets. See the GtkAda User's Guide for more details.
> - Under Windows, non ASCII characters are now displayed instead of being
>   truncated.
> - New routines to update and copy XML trees easliy in Glib.XML
> - Documentation additions
> - various refreshing/displaying problems fixed in the GUI builder under
>   Windows
> - new functions Gtk.Viewport.Get_Bin_Window,
>    Gtk.Notebook.Get_Allocation_[Height, Width, X, Y]
> - gmodule is now bound in Glib.Module
> - libglade is now bound in Glade and Glade.XML, and obsoletes the capability
>   previousely provided in Gtk.Glade
> - Gtk.Glade.Register_Generate allows to add easily support for new widgets
>   in Gate
> - The following widgets are now recognized automatically and no longer
>   require the use of Gtk.Type_Conversion: Gtk_Item, Gtk_Check_Menu_Item,
>   Gtk_Radio_Menu_Item, Gtk_Tearoff_Menu_Item, Gtk_Tree_Item.
> - A new function, Gtk.Unchecked_Cast, provides an alternative to
>   Gtk.Type_Conversion.
> - The Gtkada.Canvas has been partly rewritten and now uses less memory.
>   It also provides scrolling while moving items.
> - A few bug fixes, as described in the known-problems file