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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: gtkada/glade info needed
Date: 2000/10/02
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In article <slrn8thb66.17p.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>,
  randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:22:18 +0200, Gautier wrote:
> Glade is not produced by ACT and has the version number 0.5.10
> (latest) meaning it hasn't reached 1.0 yet.

A good point.

> cut & paste it into where I want it in my source code. I can of course
> understand that one wants to use the GUI builder. But one way or the
> other you need to know GtkAda and some at least of GTK+ to be able to
> use it to its fullest.

Not using a GUI builder for a toy or hobby project might be an option.
But for a serious non-trivial GUI you should nearly always use a
builder. Its like the difference between using assembler and a high
level language.

That being said, I should mention that I didn't find Glade significanly
worse than the various Motif-based GUI builders I'm used to. With those
you also need to at least know some basics about Motif widgets and how
they can be put together. But I don't know how it compares to the
Windows-based GUI builders, which I think was the comparison being
drawn. I haven't used any of them. Perhaps they are far easier.

Of course this entire discussion is really a Glade issue, not an Ada
one.

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