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: a07f3367d7,a46876163b4897bc X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!pit-transit.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Paul" Subject: Re: GTKADA Installation Questions Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1q0fg2jlo27d6.bkuv4lq90r40$.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: XanaNews/1.18.1.6 Message-ID: <6VfAm.46766$ze1.40512@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:35:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.176.36.225 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1255246530 124.176.36.225 (Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:35:30 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:35:30 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8660 Date: 2009-10-11T07:35:30+00:00 List-Id: 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 --