Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

ezkcdude a �crit :
> Markus, thanks for the advice. I'm one of those people who loves to do
> the "right" thing, and it seems to me like Ada is, in theory, a great
> programming language. Of course, one has to be practical. The main
> issues that I am trying to wrestle with is how I would implement a GUI
> and, in general, handle graphics (display, manipulation, input/
> output). Java seems much more ready-made for these tasks at the
> moment, and I don't see the Ada packages have that much enthusiasm or
> support. It's unfortunate, because like I said, Ada seems like the
> "right" language to me for most of what my objectives are.

I don't understand that, did you really had a look at GtkAda (some have
commented that they don't like it, fine) ? GPS is developed with it,
looks like GtkAda is quite capable... Another solution for Ada is to use
AWS, the Ada application can then be accessed with a standard browser.
This of course impose that the GUI be not too "fancy", yet with the
AWS/Ajax support there is still some nice GUI to build.

> One idea I have, and I'd love to hear advice or comments, is to use
> Ada as the "engine" for my program, and somehow use Java to create the
> GUI and deal with images. Does this seem like a possibility?

Everything is possible :) Java GUI are so ugly that I won't even
consider this a solution. At least GtkAda as native look&feel (not 100%
ok but far better than Java).

Pascal.

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