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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: Binding or not binding
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:14:59 +0100
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:41:07 GMT, Bj�rn Persson wrote:
> 
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:25:50 +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Another example, do you think it would have been wise to recode the
>>>> Gtk+ library in Ada... certainly not :)
>>> 
>>> I wouldn't be so sure. In a long term perspective it certainly makes
>>> sense. Fighting GTK+ costs too much time. GUI libraries have too much
>>> influence on software design to leave them outside Ada. If Ada only had
>>> a quasi-standard GUI library, portable, task-safe, designed for and in
>>> Ada...
>> 
>> I wonder if it would make sense to make a hybrid, or maybe I should call
>> it an ultra-thick binding. That is, to design an API that makes sense for
>> Ada, and write the specifications without regard to any other library,
>> but then internally use a portable library like GTK+, QT or WXwidgets ?
>> or low-level parts of it ? to put things on the screen and take care of
>> the cross-platform issues.
> 
> It could turn even more difficult than to design, say, GTK+ from scratch.
> At this level we will have to abstract widgets, styles, resources rather
> than events, drawing contexts, pixels, fonts, pens of the lover level.
 
Perhaps the history of java AWT, JWT, Swing is relevant here.