Re: How to add a GTKAda?

[Marcus F <trenatos@gmail.com>]

On Monday, June 17, 2013 2:26:59 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT), Marcus F wrote:
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> > I'm certainly new to Ada (A few days in), but I'm not new to programming,
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> > I usually learn best by examples and by altering code, which is why I
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> > wanted to play with GTK, I've done minimal GUI programming before in
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> > PortablE.
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> 1. Rosetta Code has plenty GtkAda examples:
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>    http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
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> Note that these are GTK 2.x (GtkAda 2.24.x). Don't expect them working with
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> GTK 3.x (GtkAda 3.4.x). None will. But it is relatively straightforward to
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> fix them.
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> I presume, the biggest issue for a beginner would be generic packages
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> defining signal handlers. They cannot be instantiated deeper than on the
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> library level. Examples tend to be single source file, which will require
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> unchecked conversions for a locally defined handler to the library level
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> callback procedure. (For a real-life project it is not an issue because it
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> will put this stuff into library level packages.)
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> 2. Refer to GTK documentation and tutorials:
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> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/
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> GtkAda is thin bindings, so C examples are relatively simple to translate
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> into Ada. Except for signal handlers which are made Ada way (e.g. type
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> safe).
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> 3. You should probably switch to GPS. AdaGIDE is nice but not suitable for
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> large projects. It is much comfortable for GtkAda and other large projects
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> deploying GNAT project files (*.gpr).
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> Regards,
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> Dmitry A. Kazakov
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> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Thank you Dmitry, I did already install GPS, but.. I don't understand it.
I tried new project, typing in code, but I can't compile/build/run, I get a number of errors.

I'll try re-installing tomorrow, maybe I did something wrong when installing.