Re: Qt or Gtk? (from an Ada perspective)

[alb348@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:47:26 AM UTC+2, Brian Drummond wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:34:41 -0700, alb348 wrote:
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> > Note: what I actually need to use is a very small subset of the
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> > functionality offered by these toolkits, in that I will only use some
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> > basic GUI functions like text edit boxes, as well as file I/O and text
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> > processing. But not much beyond that.
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> Another option, if your GUI needs are simple enough, might be to build 
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> Zenity command lines in Ada, and run them using System.OS_Lib, capturing 
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> their stdout and return codes.
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> http://library.gnome.org/users/zenity/stable/
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> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Execute_a_system_command
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> I have used Zenity to "rapid prototype" things in BASH scripts, but it 
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> would be nice to do the actual programming in Ada.
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> You can test the GUI parts from the command line without compiling 
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> anything. It would certainly be quicker to learn than GTKAda!
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> - Brian


Zenity looks interesting indeed. Only, it does not seem to support text edit boxes (unless I am mistaken), which I really need.