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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.106.11 with SMTP id gq11mr3508931obb.25.1439856879360; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:14:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.147.39 with SMTP id th7mr290826igb.12.1439856879341; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!se8no5653101igc.0!news-out.google.com!nt1ni8580igb.0!nntp.google.com!se8no5653090igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:14:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=207.102.98.187; posting-account=QZXBrgoAAADhgHRaMWbEzK_0LI2JYo5W NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.102.98.187 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <77d09082-3af0-4f6d-8d11-0f8329d31689@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: GUI for Ada (GPS with GtkAda or GtkGlade GUI Builder) From: isaac1.0@gmail.com Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:14:39 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:27481 Date: 2015-08-17T17:14:38-07:00 List-Id: GUI's with Ada are my biggest complaint with Ada. There seems to be no good= , easy to use options. My preference would be Qt, however, there seems to be 2 solutions out there= with nearly the same name, but I could only get one of them to work. (www.= qtada.com). Even then it was bound to GNAT 2012 only and very problematic t= o get things to build on my system, even with the sample programs. GTKAda is "supported" by the Adacore stuff, but the problem is the GLADE GU= I builder (for Windows) is so outdated and the Gtk that comes with GNAT GPL= doesn't seem to work right (subtle issues like not all buttons showing up = in the GUI builder). The install doesn't even point to the right filename f= or the GLADE that is installed with Adacore! The GLADE BUI builder itself i= s buggy and design for user-friendliness is not top of mind. But it does wo= rk and I've created an app with it. This is what I recommend for now as it = is "workable". There are several other options that are out there (GNOGA? GNAVI? some othe= rs) they seem like much more "demo" than anything else. I could never get i= t to work properly at all, clearly not polished, at the very least, not doc= umented well enough. Annoying part is it doesn't have to be this way. Qt is quite decent, Lazaru= s for FreePascal is very nice, even the JavaFX Scenebuilder is not so annoy= ing and EiffelStudio has its own GUI tool too as does Eclipse Windowbuilder= option. This is not even considering the "professional" non-free tools. I = guess there are not enough Ada experts out there that care enough to have f= ree GUI tools... Yes I do embedded work, so I don't always need a GUI. But I create stuff fo= r my colleagues & customers as well and nobody will put up with a CLI appli= cation nowadays. On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 3:24:37 AM UTC-7, Trish Cayetano wrote: > Hi,=20 >=20 > I am done with the functionality of my Ada program (using GPS) and next i= s to make it pretty by having a GUI instead of a text based.=20 >=20 > Please advise what shall I use to build the GUI... >=20 > Thank you very much.