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: 103376,470860aa3e635a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio References: <13duou81kg3sd1c@corp.supernews.com> <13f3e0vbb05s47c@corp.supernews.com> <13f6eg0te46m2a3@corp.supernews.com> From: Markus E L Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:28:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4f7imfj86x.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+j3oJKGfOfvh9glfmTS4OG0UvoQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.74.44.84 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1190719381 88.74.44.84 (25 Sep 2007 13:23:01 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!multikabel.net!newsfeed10.multikabel.net!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed2.scan-plus.net!newsfeed.velia.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2132 Date: 2007-09-25T13:28:06+02:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" wrote: > "Jean-Pierre Rosen" wrote in message > news:rkr7df.7mp.ln@hunter.axlog.fr... >> Steve a �crit : > ... >> > This kind of interaction with building GUI applications is nothing new. >> > It's similar to the way things have worked with Visual Basic and Delphi > for >> > a long time. Sadly Ada is lacking in this area. >> > >> What you describe is exactly what you get with GtkAda/Glade. Ada lacks >> nothing when you know where to look for... > > He said specifically that GtkAda didn't work well for him on Windows. > > Mine own experience has been that GtkAda programs are ugly Windows programs > (as are Java GUI ones). I have to contradict. My experience is otherwise. Perhaps the style engines got better or I'm doing more tweaking to get a GUI that looks well on both platforms. > Of course, that's less of a problem these days when > virtually all programs have abandoned sane, clean appearing GUIs in favor of > masses of indescribable eye candy. I've pretty much given up > buying/downloading any software because the vast majority is either horrible > or ugly or slow or all three. (I write the vast majority of what I need in > Ada -- that's probably one of the signs of oncoming insanity. ;-) s/insanity/age/ :-) Regards -- Markus