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!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!217.73.144.45.MISMATCH!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!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 09:17:49 +0100 Organization: Swisscom IP+ (post doesn't reflect views of Swisscom) Message-ID: <478c6c2d$1@news.post.ch> References: <6d63c543-0a35-4c39-a330-98c63a24f64d@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> 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 1200385074 19258 194.41.146.1 (15 Jan 2008 08:17:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:17:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <6d63c543-0a35-4c39-a330-98c63a24f64d@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w03duo.pnet.ch X-Original-Trace: 15 Jan 2008 09:17:49 +0100, w03duo.pnet.ch Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19410 Date: 2008-01-15T09:17:49+01:00 List-Id: Tomek Walkuski schrieb: > In which direction should it go? Portable means: native widgets on all > platform (wxWidgets approach) or imitation of these (Swing approach)? > Do you have any other ideas? Some design suggestions? I have another suggestion: A GUI Library based on OpenStep [1]. Existing GUI Libraries tend to be rather complex with hundreds of classes - any binding is a huge work - especially since most GUI Libraries are OO - and binding to an OO Lib in another language is difficult. And a job without end as all libraries are constantly extended. Bare metal programming is only an option for Windows but not X11. In OpenStep all GUI work is done in Objective-C or Objective-C++ - languages which can be implemented by a pre-processor to C or C++. So here the Idea: If we create an Objective-Ada pre-processor we are done. And the Mac-Ada users would love it ;-). Martin [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com