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-Thread: 103376,c32fe290813aec20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!164.128.36.58!news.ip-plus.net!newsfeed.ip-plus.net!news.post.ch!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library? Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:54:19 +0100 Organization: Swisscom IP+ (post doesn't reflect views of Swisscom) Message-ID: <478c66ab$1@news.post.ch> References: <6d63c543-0a35-4c39-a330-98c63a24f64d@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1365533.nRhg4MZKNK@linux1.krischik.com> <4e5ffa74-e1d6-4e80-9dd9-824df475a60c@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <970df333-8c12-4f5d-b32b-ded6a84a0195@v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <478A1CE2.4040200@obry.net> <478A1EAB.8020206@obry.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.41.146.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: atlas.ip-plus.net 1200383664 19167 194.41.146.1 (15 Jan 2008 07:54:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:54:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <478A1EAB.8020206@obry.net> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w03duo.pnet.ch X-Original-Trace: 15 Jan 2008 08:54:19 +0100, w03duo.pnet.ch Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19408 Date: 2008-01-15T08:54:19+01:00 List-Id: I guess we are now at: +--------------------------------+ | Ada GUI Thick bindings | (4) +--------------------------------+ | Ada GUI Thin bindings | (3) ---------------------------------+ | Convention C abstraction layer | (2) +------+--------+-------+--------+ | X11 | Gtk+ | QT | Win32 | (1) | +--------+-------+ | | | Win 32 / X11 | | +-----------------------+--------+ There is just one problem here: Both Gtk+ and QT are OO libraries which are not all that compatible with the Ada's OO way of live and this in turn mean that layer (2) and (3) might not be as tiny as we hope for. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com