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: 2002-04-18 07:08:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Date: 18 Apr 2002 07:08:02 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204180608.579f1e4b@posting.google.com> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CB9375F.8040904@snafu.de> <3CB9AF3C.8030301@snafu.de> <3CBC5281.1040202@snafu.de> <3CBDAAA9.5050302@snafu.de> <555f76f7dd67c7f1678e027353d1a6a1.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <3CBDE85F.9ACFD30@san.rr.com> <3CBE0457.6E7B82A8@san.rr.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 1019138883 12530 127.0.0.1 (18 Apr 2002 14:08:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Apr 2002 14:08:03 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22722 Date: 2002-04-18T14:08:03+00:00 List-Id: "Eric G. Miller" wrote in message news:... > There is no connection between Tk and Gtk, though both have similar > goals (gui abstraction layer and toolkit). AFAIK, both are written > in C. Just to be complete it should be mentioned that there are good Ada bindings available for both. > That is one benefit of Tk. It's been around longer, and has been > ported to more systems than Gtk. But my impression is that Gtk2 > smokes Tk in widget functionality, and certainly the Gtk1.x look and > "feel" is better than most Tk programs I've used. I suspect in a I switched from Tk to Gtk as my default Ada gui about 2 years ago for precisely that reason. The only sore spot with Gtk is that it isn't yet supported on Macs. I suspect that will change soon, at least for OSX. For those looking for a defacto Ada GUI standard, I would say that it is already here with GtkAda, as much as we will ever have a standard. Perhaps it would help everyone to realise its "standard" status if we distributed it with future Gnat builds? :-) -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html