Re: wxAda : is it vanished ?

[Lucretia9 <Lucretia9000@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Aug 13, 11:03 am, Yannick Duchêne Hibou57
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> On 12 août, 15:01, Lucretia9 <Lucretia9...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Luke (alias Lucretia), nice to meet you :)

Hi, and you :)

> What is the new way to bind to wxWidgets you are thinking about ?

Well, to try to automate it using python scripts (if this doesn't work
another attempt with SWIG). Rather than define all tagged types as
non-limited types, they will be limited and they will have to
allocated
dynamically, this is how other bindings to C++ UI toolkits work and
really is the only way due to C++ semantics.

> I guess its big work, as wxWidgets (previously wxWindows) is all in C+
> +, and interfacing C++ with Ada, tipically requires an intermediate
> binding in C... a tedious task.

Yeah, bit job due to the size of wxWidgets, although I have no
intentions
of supporting the entire lib, there's stuff wxAda just doesn't
require.

> As I said, I was interested in wxWidget rather than others, beceaue of
> its license termes and beceause it is an interface to the underlying
> OS, not an emulation which creates all its own widgets (I've seen
> screen shots of GTK on Mac, it look like Gnome on Linux, and Qt does
> an emulation too, althought it lies better).

Yup, the license and also the ease of programming with wxWidgets is
what
got me started with it in the first place.

I think atm, your options are this:

1) Use AdaGtk on all platforms for now.
2) Develop your UI code in whatever language for whatever platform,
e.g.
C++ for Win32, Obj-C for Apple and then create the app code in Ada
providing
some sort of interface between the 2.

Luke.