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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,714a8558b02b32bb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-21 21:58:25 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: GUI alternatives: FLTK reimplemented in Ada? References: <400E7D14.70407@noplace.com> From: tkb@citynet.net (T. Kurt Bond) Date: 22 Jan 2004 01:04:20 -0500 Message-ID: <86fze85xjv.fsf_-_@corum.tkb.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.43.20.209 X-Trace: corp.newsgroups.com 1074751089 69.43.20.209 (21 Jan 2004 23:58:09 -0600) X-Comments: This message was posted through Visit Organization: Newsfeeds.com http://www.newsfeeds.com 100,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!east1.newsfeed.sprint-canada.net!news-out2.spamkiller.net!corp.newsgroups.com!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4625 Date: 2004-01-22T01:04:20-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic writes: > My point was that volunteer efforts to build something are by their > very nature going to be slow to build some relatively large end > result. If ASCLWG was able to agree on Charles as a starting point, > great. But to add on to Charles some larger body of capabilities (such > as building a GUI on top of it) I think that could take *years* unless > it got out of "All Volunteer" mode somehow. > > You can adopt an existing thing like GtkAda or CLAW or JEWL or > whatever as a starting point too. That has strengths and weaknesses as > well. If building something like GtkAda from scratch would be prohibitively slow, building something with more limited aims might be easier to accomplish. For instance, FLTK (see http://www.fltk.org/ for more information) is a cross platform GUI toolkit (MS Windows, X on Unix, Mac OS X) written in C++. It emphasizes being small and efficient but flexible, and is under 100k lines of code, which includes a GUI User Interface Designer. Perhaps starting with the FLTK design and redesigning and reimplementing it in Ada 95 would be a reasonable target and a task of manageable size. -- T. Kurt Bond, tkb@citynet.net -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----