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Subject: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?
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On Jan 12, 3:19 pm, Martin Krischik <krisc...@users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
> Tomek Walkuski wrote:
> > 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 think the wxWidgets idea is the best.

Yes it is. I originally started to write a binding library to
wxWidgets (http://www.archeia.com/home.html&tags=wxwidgets) but found
it incredibly hard to do.

We have just had a similar conversation on #Ada (freenode) about this.
I think the best way is to create a very thin C lib which exports a
bunch of functions for manipulating the underlying GUI lib and then
build an Ada library on top of that. These C functions could, if you
wanted, for certain platforms be another Ada library which exports to
C (for compatibility to the above layer). This then allows binding to
a GUI which already has a decent Ada port and to those which don't.

Luke.