Re: portable GUI toolkit

[Bob Crispen <revbob@EIGHT-BALL.HV.BOEING.COM>]

"Terry J. Westley" <westley@BUFFNET.NET> sez:

>> If a binding is portable across Macs, X-Windows, and others, just
>> what is it a binding to?  It would seem to be a binding
>> to a platform independent graphical toolkit of your invention.
>
>There is in fact just such a toolkit.  It is called Tcl/Tk.  To learn more
>about it, see http://www.smli.com/research/tcl/.  There are many other
>sites with Tcl/Tk information.  Search for Tcl/Tk in your favorite search
>tool.  Tcl/Tk is available for X, Mac, and Windows in both source and binary
>forms.

I'm aware of 3 other major cross-platform efforts (there must be more)
that may be relevant in one way or another:

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jacs/wxwin.html -- WxWindows
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wampler/ -- V
http://www.gnustep.org/ -- OpenStep

V seems to have got a boost recently when Steve Chamberlain included it
in the latest release of GnuWin32, the C and C++ compiler for Win95 and
WinNT.

Anybody doing the Ada 95 bindings for any of these yet?  Surely somebody
has a fresh, young graduate student who's too ignorant to be terrified
of developing bindings from the outside on an emerging standard ;-)

Bob Crispen
revbob@eight-ball.hv.boeing.com
Speaking for myself, not my company