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From: Frank Piron <frank.piron@konad.de>
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Subject: Re: GtkAda for professional GUI-Application ?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:27:28 +0000
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So, what you suggest is a "rapid-like" approach ?

Thanks for your comments, Frank Piron

David Botton schrieb:
> 
> Speaking as an "application" developer, using GWindows, CLAW or other native
> framework will always give you a superior product on Windows. I prefer to
> always abstract the GUI and write a version of the GUI front end for each
> platform in their native framework (GtkAda for Linux, GWindows for Windows,
> Cocoa for MacOSX, etc.)
> 
> Of course if you are just "hacking" a front end that end users will not be
> using, GtkAda works OK on windows.
> 
> Support for GWindows/GNATCOM and GtkAda are both available from ACT
> (sales@gnat.com)
> 
> David Botton
> 
> > But now we are unsure, wether its mor attractive to
> > choose GtkAda for the Gui-Components, because then the
> > Client - Library will compile in Gnu-Linux-Environments too.
> > Unfortunately GtkAda 1.3.12 ( Windows ) cannot handle
> > German - Umlaute. Further i did play around with the
> > "testgtk"-Application for windows and noticed that its
> > not so stable and smooth as Gwindows is.