From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:14:34 +0100
Date: 2008-01-13T12:14:34+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5152204.HRa54RTrq2@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 187iruircnfuu$.oc2g47zys18k.dlg@40tude.net
Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Gtk and Qt are themselves thick bindings. It makes no sense to use them as
> a low-level rendering platform. An all-Ada GUI design should IMO look
> like:
>
> Ada GUI library
> ----------------------------------------
> Ada rendering platform abstraction layer
> |
> Ada ￜ | Ada native bindings, engine-specific
> -------- | -----------------------------
> X11 ￜ | Win32 GUI API
The problem here is that X11 is so very low level - too low level in fact.
We would have to provide an widget engine first.
Now I just had an idea: how about a Widget which is similar to Win32 GUI
API. But no, that would be WINE all over again.
Martin
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2008-01-12 13:37 New Ada portable GUI Library? Tomek Walkuski
2008-01-12 15:19 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-12 18:12 ` Lucretia
2008-01-12 20:40 ` Tomek Walkuski
2008-01-12 23:01 ` Lucretia
2008-01-13 5:17 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-01-13 9:07 ` Lucretia
2008-01-13 10:49 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-01-16 9:45 ` I. Levashew
2008-01-13 8:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-13 9:11 ` Lucretia
2008-01-13 10:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-13 10:25 ` Tomek Walkuski
2008-01-13 12:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-13 19:58 ` Michael Bode
2008-01-13 21:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-13 21:53 ` Michael Bode
2008-01-14 9:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-13 23:08 ` Gary Scott
2008-01-13 23:31 ` Michael Bode
2008-01-13 23:50 ` Gary Scott
2008-01-14 19:12 ` Michael Bode
2008-01-13 11:27 ` Lucretia
2008-01-13 11:29 ` Lucretia
2008-01-15 7:34 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-15 8:38 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-01-15 8:54 ` Martin Krischik
2008-02-11 22:10 ` Martin
2008-02-12 18:35 ` Martin Krischik
2008-02-12 21:43 ` Tomek Walkuski
2008-01-13 11:14 ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2008-01-13 11:31 ` Lucretia
2008-01-14 17:58 ` Ben
2008-01-14 18:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-14 20:47 ` Gautier
2008-01-14 21:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-13 13:28 ` Stephen Leake
2008-01-13 14:14 ` Pascal Obry
2008-01-13 14:22 ` Pascal Obry
2008-01-15 7:54 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-16 7:54 ` Brian May
2008-01-16 8:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-16 8:52 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-16 18:26 ` tmoran
2008-01-13 22:22 ` Lucretia
2008-01-14 10:07 ` Stephen Leake
2008-01-12 18:36 ` (slightly OT) Open Source licences? (was: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?) framefritti
2008-01-12 18:57 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-01-12 19:27 ` Tomek Walkuski
2008-01-12 19:39 ` (slightly OT) Open Source licences? Gautier
2008-01-12 20:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-12 21:58 ` Robert A Duff
2008-01-13 0:04 ` (slightly OT) Open Source licences? (was: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?) Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-12 22:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-13 11:04 ` New Ada portable GUI Library? Gautier
2008-01-15 7:56 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-15 17:41 ` Gautier
2008-01-16 8:16 ` tmoran
2008-01-16 8:56 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-16 19:34 ` Gautier
2008-01-16 22:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-01-17 20:32 ` Gautier
2008-01-18 1:41 ` Robert A Duff
2008-01-18 17:53 ` tmoran
2008-01-18 18:59 ` Robert A Duff
2008-01-18 19:28 ` Pascal Obry
2008-01-20 22:38 ` Robert A Duff
2008-01-20 1:38 ` Jerrid Kimball
2008-01-20 12:30 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-01-20 13:40 ` Stephen Leake
2008-01-20 14:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-15 8:17 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-15 9:14 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-01-15 10:39 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-15 14:01 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-01-15 16:05 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-15 17:31 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-01-16 8:28 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-17 2:21 ` I. Levashew
2008-01-17 7:34 ` OpenStep/GNUStep/Cocoa (Was: New Ada portable GUI Library?) Martin Krischik
2008-01-17 9:06 ` Ivan Levashew
2008-01-17 10:25 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-18 3:28 ` Ivan Levashew
2008-01-18 7:24 ` Martin Krischik
2008-01-15 21:51 ` New Ada portable GUI Library? Phaedrus
2008-01-16 0:04 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-01-16 0:20 ` Phaedrus
2008-01-16 1:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-01-16 1:47 ` Phaedrus
2008-01-20 14:07 ` Andre
2008-01-21 23:14 ` Frederik Sausmikat
2008-01-27 11:26 ` Lucretia
2008-01-27 16:47 ` Gary Scott
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