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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc3cd65b8421a1e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-01 21:00:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!oleane.net!oleane!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gtkada/glade info needed Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 03:45:38 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. Message-ID: <8r90d2$pem$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <39D65E94.DD8563E@acm.org> <39D76103.1D3E5503@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Oct 02 03:45:38 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x55.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:916 Date: 2000-10-02T03:45:38+00:00 List-Id: In article <39D76103.1D3E5503@acm.org>, Marin David Condic wrote: > Kind of figured out that part for myself - eventually. I can > learn to work with whatever model they want to propose, but > I'm just not a mindreader. We have in general found that people can make good progress using this technology if they work through things in the logical order, and read the documentation carefully. You need of course to completely familiarize yourself with Gtk+ first, that's the first step, then follow through the GtkAda examples. Also, one thing you *certainly* should have got from the documentation is the proper mailing list on which to discuss these issues, namely gtkada@gtkada.eu.org. I would suggest that if you post polite informed technical questions there, you may well get help (rants and raves comparing the technology to burnt french fries may be less successful). If indeed you perceive that some more elementary tutorial information would be useful beyond what is there in the documentation now, a constructive thing would be to try to supply this missing documentation. It's nice to contribute as well as to receive when it comes to projects like this :-) Of course making full use of a technology like this is not a simple matter, and we have found for example that customers attending our one day training class on GtkAda find it very useful. We also find that this is definitely an area in which it is useful to have support from knowledgable folks. Nevertheless, if you take the effort to work through the documentation, and use the right mailing list to ask questions, you should definitely be able to make more progress :-) Robert Dewar Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.