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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e092a534485c39a1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: blancolioni@blancolioni.org (Fraser) Subject: Re: What is the best Xwindow, window98 program to use frames with ada? Date: 1999/12/11 Message-ID: <82v1b5$6cv$1@kimba.whitelion.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 559553017 References: <384BA08B.E945CBE1@cybercable.fr> <82l089$108gc$1@oceanite.cybercable.fr> <82l2g8$jtd$1@kimba.whitelion.org> <82mlsu$t3i$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net 944962476 216.101.252.104 (Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:34:36 PST) Organization: White Lion NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:34:36 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: paene lacrimavi postquam Robert Dewar scripsit: >Well GtkAda is the work of a dedicated group of volunteers, and >is indeed a very nice piece of work (now fully supported by >Ada Core Technologies for its customers). It is all open >sourced free software, so there is no reason why you could >not correct the state of affairs on MacOS. All it takes is >one enthusiastic Mac person to invest the necessary effort, >there is certainly no fundamental reason why it could not >be successfully ported to MacOS. Yeah, I know. My post was really a vague fish -- I'd like to be able to compile GtkAda stuff on my iBook [1] and my knowledge of the MacOS API is somewhere in the region of zero. Porting Gtk would have some interesting challenges: the menu paradigm, to take an obvious example, is completely different, and it would be nice to have Gtk applications on the Mac looking like, well, like Mac applications. Fraser. [1] An astoundingly good-looking computer, which I highly recommend to anybody who wants to be both stylish and productive. The right clothes help of course. -- fraser 'at' whitelion 'dot' org