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,c32fe290813aec20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!194.134.4.77.MISMATCH!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tiscali.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed02.chello.at!news.hispeed.ch.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <5152204.HRa54RTrq2@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:14:34 +0100 References: <6d63c543-0a35-4c39-a330-98c63a24f64d@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1365533.nRhg4MZKNK@linux1.krischik.com> <4e5ffa74-e1d6-4e80-9dd9-824df475a60c@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <970df333-8c12-4f5d-b32b-ded6a84a0195@v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <187iruircnfuu$.oc2g47zys18k.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@hispeed.ch Organization: hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.75.162.66 (84.75.162.66) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:15:02 +0100 X-Trace: d8aa14789f2b6f1ee07e721677 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19379 Date: 2008-01-13T12:14:34+01:00 List-Id: 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 � | Ada native bindings, engine-specific > -------- | ----------------------------- > X11 � | 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 -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com