Re: GUI for Ada (GPS with GtkAda or GtkGlade GUI Builder)

[brbarkstrom@gmail.com]

 > >> It is one of [lack of] education that leads people to develop GTK or Qt in
> >> the languages like C and C++. If you looked at GtkAda and compared it to
> >> the native C API you would immediately see how much safer GtkAda is. 
> > 
> > So, in general, your advice is to (always) provide (in type-safe language)
> > thick GUI bindings for toolkit like GTk/Qt, right?
> 
> Yes, thin bindings are pretty much nuisance. Not only for GUI, when
> designing a DB bindings Connection, Statement, Cursor etc are made
> controlled, safely closed when out of scope etc.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov

As another thread in this conversation, it might be useful to remember
that one of the difficulties in writing GUI's is that there are so many
versions of OS's.  For Windows, there's NT (for which the Navy is apparently
paying a fair amount of money to have MS maintain code), 7, 8, and 10.
For Linux, a GUI is likely to be related to Motif, with may more
proprietary variants.

I've still got one of Petzold's manuals for "Programming Windows" (as
well as one on "Programming Windows with the Microsoft Foundation Classes").
By the time the manuals get longer than 1,000 pages, you might figure
that maintenance of the code will be unpleasant.

It would probably make more sense to provide the user interface with the
HTML5 and CSS3.3 (or whatever new versions of these crop up).  This kind
of environment is a bit more standardized and less dependent on proprietary
API's.  In this case, maintenance means keeping up with the browser wars.

It sort of depends on which part of the battlefield you want to set up
your quarters.

Bruce B.