Re: portable GUI toolkit

Re: portable GUI toolkit

[Bob Crispen]

"Terry J. Westley" <westley@BUFFNET.NET> sez:

>> If a binding is portable across Macs, X-Windows, and others, just
>> what is it a binding to?  It would seem to be a binding
>> to a platform independent graphical toolkit of your invention.
>
>There is in fact just such a toolkit.  It is called Tcl/Tk.  To learn more
>about it, see http://www.smli.com/research/tcl/.  There are many other
>sites with Tcl/Tk information.  Search for Tcl/Tk in your favorite search
>tool.  Tcl/Tk is available for X, Mac, and Windows in both source and binary
>forms.

I'm aware of 3 other major cross-platform efforts (there must be more)
that may be relevant in one way or another:

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jacs/wxwin.html -- WxWindows
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wampler/ -- V
http://www.gnustep.org/ -- OpenStep

V seems to have got a boost recently when Steve Chamberlain included it
in the latest release of GnuWin32, the C and C++ compiler for Win95 and
WinNT.

Anybody doing the Ada 95 bindings for any of these yet?  Surely somebody
has a fresh, young graduate student who's too ignorant to be terrified
of developing bindings from the outside on an emerging standard ;-)

Bob Crispen
revbob@eight-ball.hv.boeing.com
Speaking for myself, not my company

Re: portable GUI toolkit

[Dale Pontius]

In article <9605011307.AA23509@eight-ball>,
        Bob Crispen <revbob@EIGHT-BALL.HV.BOEING.COM> writes:
>"Terry J. Westley" <westley@BUFFNET.NET> sez:
>
>>> If a binding is portable across Macs, X-Windows, and others, just
>>> what is it a binding to?  It would seem to be a binding
>>> to a platform independent graphical toolkit of your invention.
>>
>>There is in fact just such a toolkit.  It is called Tcl/Tk.  To learn more
>>about it, see http://www.smli.com/research/tcl/.  There are many other
>>sites with Tcl/Tk information.  Search for Tcl/Tk in your favorite search
>>tool.  Tcl/Tk is available for X, Mac, and Windows in both source and binary
>>forms.
>
>I'm aware of 3 other major cross-platform efforts (there must be more)
>that may be relevant in one way or another:
>
>http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jacs/wxwin.html -- WxWindows
>http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wampler/ -- V
>http://www.gnustep.org/ -- OpenStep
>
>V seems to have got a boost recently when Steve Chamberlain included it
>in the latest release of GnuWin32, the C and C++ compiler for Win95 and
>WinNT.
>
Another of those 'not quite there' portable GUI toolkits is ODF.
It's a user interface library for OpenDoc, and is cross-platform.
It's testing on Mac now, OS/2 this summer, Windows this fall, and
Unix sometime in there.

Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)

Re: portable GUI toolkit

[Terry J. Westley]

In article <4l88ik$ed2@news.tamu.edu>, ron@cs.tamu.edu (Ron J Theriault) wrote:

> If a binding is portable across Macs, X-Windows, and others, just
> what is it a binding to?  It would seem to be a binding
> to a platform independent graphical toolkit of your invention.

There is in fact just such a toolkit.  It is called Tcl/Tk.  To learn more
about it, see http://www.smli.com/research/tcl/.  There are many other
sites with Tcl/Tk information.  Search for Tcl/Tk in your favorite search
tool.  Tcl/Tk is available for X, Mac, and Windows in both source and binary
forms.

To learn more about an Ada95 (GNAT) binding to Tcl/Tk, see
http://www.ocsystems.com/xada/tash/ as well as an article in a future
"ACM Ada Letters."

-- 
Terry J. Westley
westley@buffnet.net
http://www.buffnet.net/~westley/