Re: Ada Library, called, returns and continues ?

[Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>]

"I don't understand this. To use GTK outside GtkAda bindings? What for? "

Yeah, I can understand this reaction, it is weird. Things might have changed now but basically I couldn't understand the Ada binding in the detail I wanted. I was thinking about writing a skeleton C application and then binding Ada to it to sort of script it. I failed at the time.

"in that case you should find a GUI framework for which there already exist
ready-to-use bindings. If I ever looked into Gtk sources then only for
finding Gtk bugs. It would be a horror scenario if looking into the sources
were required for daily GUI developing. Gtk is far from perfect but at
least this torture you are spared from. I am sure that the same could be
said about any other popular GUI framework. "

Yes, I understand your logic. However if I ever have the time or acquire the skills I would like to write an entire toolkit directly in Ada. I think the only feasible way to do this is to port the code over from another existing toolkit and to pick a very small one to port.

-Patrick