Re: Weakness of Ada is expensive / security / etc. ? Anything else?

[NiGHTS <nights@unku.us>]

On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 12:59:24 PM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> OK, but then GtkAda is not to blame for any differences GTK might have.
> Which mostly non-existent, and if any, then rather due to GTK-themes
> selected, or not, by the user (you).
> 
> All GUI toolkits are themed in these days, which is bad in my view as well
> as from the ergonomic/automation POV.
> 
> But they are hugely beloved by people dying to see green texts on magenta
> backgrounds...
> 

If it was theme related differences I wouldn't be complaining about it. Here is an example for you: Word wrap simply doesn't work on labels in Linux but it does work in Windows. Same code (literally), wildly different results. Here's another: When using Tree_View.Set_Cursor with Start_Editing => True, you can't see what you are typing in Windows (looks like uneditable text) yet it works just fine in Linux.

There are other examples I could give you but I can't remember them all on account of that I now try to avoid the things that cause structural inconsistencies. Mind you none of them are style / color related. 

I would love to hear some workarounds to some of these problems since I am actively working on such a project for multiple platforms on Ada with GNATCOLL and GTKAda involved. (Testing platforms: Kubuntu 15.04 x64 / Windows 7 x32)