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: 103376,8b7e315279c3f417 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.224.173.202 with SMTP id q10mr191812qaz.3.1355787755281; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:42:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.35.77 with SMTP id f13mr10815qej.4.1355787755263; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:42:35 -0800 (PST) Path: k2ni865qap.0!nntp.google.com!ee4no240354qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:42:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.53.16.242; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.53.16.242 References: <5ced9166-5a29-4ad2-8270-6d24ddd0d0a1@googlegroups.com> <1rz66cdo8v1hv.j9eyg9eqqide$.dlg@40tude.net> <87db4d95-56ce-4254-8031-7bbbea515ff3@googlegroups.com> <3bb4c9f9-7317-46c2-8ddf-a80a6706ce65@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <6f3c34d9-504a-494c-9157-2cf2649e4776@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada Library, called, returns and continues ? From: Patrick Cc: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:42:35 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-12-17T15:42:35-08:00 List-Id: "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 change= d now but basically I couldn't understand the Ada binding in the detail I w= anted. I was thinking about writing a skeleton C application and then bindi= ng 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 th= e skills I would like to write an entire toolkit directly in Ada. I think t= he only feasible way to do this is to port the code over from another exist= ing toolkit and to pick a very small one to port. -Patrick