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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
Date: 12 Apr 2002 07:37:21 -0700
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Ingo Marks <adv@region-nord.de> wrote in message news:<a9666p$euv$06$1@news.t-online.com>...
> Michael Erdmann wrote:
> 
> > But is there any move in the Ada communitiy to standarize something
> > in the GUI domain?
> 
> What about GtkAda?
> 
> http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/
> http://www.gtk.org 
> 
> GTK is supported on many platforms (Unix, Win32, BeOS and even MacOSX, see 
> http://www.apple.com/scitech/unixports).

A very good point. I'd go so far as to say that GtkAda is the closest
thing we have, and likely the closest thing we will ever have, to a
standard Ada GUI.

I use it for anything that isn't going to be OS-specific. But if you
are OS-specific you are going to want to use the OS's standard GUI, so
that everything looks and behaves the way the user expects. That's one
of the main reasons why you really can't make one "standard" GUI for
everyone.


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