Re: ANNOUNCE: GtkAda 1.2.6

["Jeff Creem" <jcreem@atetola.mv.com>]

Glade is sort of like GIMP under win32 at this point...It is somewhat stable
on some machines
and horrible on others..

I would say at this point the win32 port is still alpha-ish at best.

It is much mre stable under Linux.


Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com> wrote in message
news:38A48207.2FB8C0DD@easystreet.com...
> I have tried without success to use the version of Glade that comes with
> the Win32 version of this package.
>
> After installing, I did this:
>
> 1. Run Glade
> 2. Open  the editor.glade demo
> 3. Hit the button to write Ada source code,
> 4. Need to specify a source directory, so I use my windows start key
> to open "My Computer" in another window, find the directory I want
> to use, and enter it into Glade dialog for the source and graphics
> directory.
> 5. The dialog closes, but I can't get any of the other Glade Windows
> to redraw.  Selecting them on the NT task bar doesn't give me anything
> on the screen.  I've got three windows, but none of them are reachable.
>
> So, I use task manager to end the process, then try again:
>
> 1. Run Glade
> 2. Open  the editor.glade demo
> 3. Hit the button to write Ada source code,
> 4. Specify a source directory, put the directory I want
> to use, and enter it into Glade dialog for the source and graphics
> directory.
> 5. Glade crashes.
>
>
> Is anyone else having success?  Any tricks to getting this to work?
>
> I assume that this works better under linux, that maybe I should
> run Glade on a linux machine and then compile the generated code under
> Win32 if that's my target.  Is that a better way to use this package to
> create Win32 apps at present?
>
>
> Al
>
>
> charlet@gnat.com wrote:
> >
> > GtkAda 1.2.6/1.3.6 release
> > --------------------------
> >
> > GtkAda is an Ada95 graphical toolkit based on Gtk+ version >= 1.2.2. It
> > allows you to develop graphical applications in Ada95 using Gtk+.
> >
> > The primary download site is http://gtkada.eu.org
> >
> > New features in 1.2.6/1.3.6 include:
> >
> > - Fixed to be compatible with Gtk+ 1.2.2 instead of requiring 1.2.4
> > - Fixed an installation problem on some Linux versions.
> > - Multiple redraws under Win32 are now handled properly.
> > - The HTML reference manual now contains nice colored boxes.
> >
> > New features in 1.2.5/1.3.5 include:
> >
> > - Extensive documentation update. GtkAda now comes with both a User's
> > Guide
> >   and a Reference Manual.
> > - New scheme for callbacks. This is much more complete than the old
> > scheme,
> >   and will permit for instance the creation of callbacks that return a
> >   value (such as for the signal "delete_event"). It is also much more
> >   systematic than the old one (less packages need to be instantiated).
> > - Gate has been updated to Glade 0.5.5, plus various bug fixes
> > - Complete Gtk+ support for Gate/Dgate
> > - A new example shows how to do some flicker-free animation with GtkAda
> > - Tested on HP-UX 11.00
> > - Tested on SCO UnixWare 7.1
> >
> > LSM entry follows:
> > Begin4
> > Title:  GtkAda
> > Version: 1.2.6
> > Entered-date: 2000-02-09
> > Description: Ada95 graphical toolkit based on Gtk+ (version >= 1.2.2)
> > Keywords: Ada95 Ada Gtk+ Gtk X Gui Glade Win32
> > 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://gtkada.eu.org
> > Original-site: http://ada.eu.org/gtkada/
> > Platforms: Solaris Linux Tru64 IRIX HP/UX NT AiX FreeBSD UnixWare
> > Copying-policy: GPL (with a slight modification, see headers of *.ad[bs]
> > files
> > End
> >
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> > Before you buy.