[ANNOUNCE] GtkAda 1.2.0

[ANNOUNCE] GtkAda 1.2.0

[charlet]

GtkAda 1.2.0 release
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GtkAda is an Ada95 binding of Gtk+ version 1.2.0. It allows you to
develop graphical applications in Ada95 using Gtk+.

Currently, all widgets  of the Gtk+ 1.2 series have  been bound. The
binding  for the Gdk part is not complete yet, but is already pretty
much in place.

To test our binding, the testgtk program has been almost completely
re-implemented and is also distributed with the binding.

LSM entry follows : Begin3  Title:  GtkAda  Version: 1.2.0  Entered-date:
06APR99  Description: Ada95 binding to Gtk+ (version 1.2.0)  Keywords: Ada95
Ada Gtk+ Gtk X Gui Glade  Author: Emmanuel Briot <briot@gnat.com>, Joel
Brobecker <jbrobecker@west.raytheon.com> and Arnaud Charlet
<charlet@gnat.com>  Maintained-by: gtkada@ada.eu.org  Primary-site: 
http://ada.eu.org/gtkada/  Original-site: http://ada.eu.org/gtkada/ 
Platforms: SunOS-5.5.1 Linux-2.0.35 Linux-2.0.36 DECUnix-4.0b IRIX-6.5 
Copying-policy: GPL (with a slight modification, see headers of *.ad[bs]
files End


New features from 0.6 include:

- All 1.2.0 widgets are now bound (including Gtk.Ctree)
- New directory structure
- First version of the documentation
- Code generation simplified in GATE
- New widgets supported by GATE/DGATE
- Support for Accelerators in widgets
- New examples in the example/ directory: how to create a widget directly
  in Ada (both composite widgets and widgets from scratch); a simple editor
  generated using Glade.

New features from 0.5 include:

- Upgrade to GTK+ 1.2.0

- Glib.XML provides a generic XML parser written in Ada

- GATE (Glade Ada Translator and Evaluator) parses the XML project files
generated by glade (a GTK+ GUI builder) and generates the corresponding
compilable Ada code. It is also able to incorporate user's changes done
between two code generations.

- DGATE (Dynamic GATE) is able to load any XML project file, create the
corresponding widgets and connect all the specified signals. It is a very
useful tool during development that allows you to test your GUI without having
to recompile anything.

- GtkAda now gives you the possiblity to extend widgets using standard Ada 95
OO constructs. This avoid the use of User_Data, and of course also provides a
stronger typing mechanism than User_Data provides.

- GtkAda now provides a configure script to ease the build and installation of
this binding.

- Some effort has been made to make this binding available on 64 bits
machines, GtkAda has actually been tested on Dec Unix.

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