Re: GTKADA Installation Questions

["Paul" <pcas1986@bigpond.net.au>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:56:30 GMT, Paul wrote:
> 
> > So my question is should I be installing GTKADA "on top" of GNAT so
> > that the duplicated directories overlap?  The installation process
> > doesn't imply that this is a useful thing to do.
> 
> Directories are duplicated intentionally. On Windows GNAT GPS comes
> with a version of GtkAda + Gtk it needs to work. GtkAda is a
> distribution of its own, with some version of Gtk, not necessarily
> same. You can also install a newer version of Gtk (Glib, Pango etc)
> from some third source. If you also installed GIMP that would be a
> fourth Gtk on your computer.
> 
> It is up to you to make them co-existing. Usually I overwrite
> GtkAda's lib with newer versions (2.14.6 or so) and put GIMP's bin
> before GNAT and GtkAda in the PATH.
> 
> P.S. I would not care about tutorial examples, because in my view they
> aren't much useful.
> 
> I would rather suggest:
> 
> 1. In order to understand how Gtk works:
> 
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk-tutorial/stable
> 
> 2. For advanced, swampy, nasty Gtk issues:
> 
> http://scentric.net/tutorial/treeview-tutorial.html
> http://www.gnome.org/~federico/misc/gtk-drawing-model/index.html
> 
> 3. Last, but not least, the excellent GtkAda reference manual
> 
> http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/gtkada-docs/gtkada
> _rm/gtkada_rm/index.html
> 
> P.P.S. It would be nice if somebody took care of packaging GtkAda
> under Windows, because this is an issue faced by every new user of
> GtkAda.  AdaCore seems to update GtkAda once per year, which is a too
> slow pace compared with the heartbeat of Gtk.


Thanks Dmitry

Rgds Paul


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