Re: Easiest way to build Qt/Gtk interfaces for Ada programs

[Justin Time <francois_fabien@hotmail.com>]

Le samedi 29 décembre 2012 01:48:37 UTC+1, Randy Brukardt a écrit :
> wrote in message 


> I suspect that this workflow is the problem that Dmitry is referring to. It 
> doesn't mesh well with incremental, agile development, where you are 
> constantly tweaking both the GUI and the code that supports it.
> 
>                                            Randy.

The gate3 tool is not intented for incremental development.
It just ouputs a sketch (with stubs for the callbacks).
It is almost stupid but saves time of typing repetitive code.
For complete newbies, they can get a prototype very quickly.

And the advantage of Gtkbuilder is the good decoupling between UI
and code. One can modify the XML/glade file for layout and re-run the app
without any recompilation

The perfect tool does not exist, but if you have one stupid tool that saves you
3 hours on a 3-day project that's not bad. On a 1 man-year project,
you don't care.