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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-15 07:28:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: 15 Apr 2002 07:28:18 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204150628.548b23e8@posting.google.com> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CB516E1.9030008@snafu.de> <3CB583D6.9000104@worldnet.att.net> <4519e058.0204111009.609078dc@posting.google.com> <3CB5D550.4000201@snafu.de> <3CB60E57.9090306@telepath.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1018880898 10441 127.0.0.1 (15 Apr 2002 14:28:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Apr 2002 14:28:18 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22549 Date: 2002-04-15T14:28:18+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:... > It always will be impossible so long as there exists two or more GUI > platforms that look & feel different. But that doesn't mean that something > couldn't be done anyway. Well of course *something* could be done. However, I don't believe anything particularly *useful* can be done. As far as anything useful can be done, the GtkAda folks have already done it. > It could go a couple of ways. One would be to say "Here's a minimal > conforming set of classes that do GUI work in such a way as to be a > least-common-denominator across some reasonably wide set of platforms. That That was the AWT approach. The result was that the Java community abandoned it and started over from scratch. As we don't have the resources they do, I propose that we cut out the middle-man. :-) > Another way to do it would be to just simply define an Ada-GUI that is its > own thing. With a graphics engine and a markup language based on XML and the Since that's essentially what Gtk is, what precisely would be the advantage of doing it ourselves rather than leveraging off of the Gtk work like the GtkAda folk have done? -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html