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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.50.29.79 with SMTP id i15mr20710526igh.0.1437501027647; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:50:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.98.117 with SMTP id n108mr546567qge.23.1437501027508; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:50:27 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!f3no964688igg.0!news-out.google.com!b31ni297qge.0!nntp.google.com!69no1086670qgl.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:50:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.138.95.40; posting-account=wEPvUgoAAABrLeiz_LRhQ3jeEhyfWVMH NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.138.95.40 References: <084c0dc7-ae74-4cb8-b1fe-78f42de94291@googlegroups.com> <5IidnWtEWowowjHInZ2dnUVZ5v6dnZ2d@giganews.com> <61db6272-72a4-47d7-b0e5-e870ac8a0432@googlegroups.com> <9078db18-03ef-4724-9818-e9ae37e3d7a8@googlegroups.com> <1opmyg48btl6a$.1pgzq9yrcmv6t$.dlg@40tude.net> <3922d054-290f-4a7d-8660-85eeac6072e9@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <9daa54dc-338a-4a78-b553-5609623ff061@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Weakness of Ada is expensive / security / etc. ? Anything else? From: NiGHTS Injection-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:50:27 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26935 Date: 2015-07-21T10:50:27-07:00 List-Id: 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). >=20 > All GUI toolkits are themed in these days, which is bad in my view as wel= l > as from the ergonomic/automation POV. >=20 > But they are hugely beloved by people dying to see green texts on magenta > backgrounds... >=20 If it was theme related differences I wouldn't be complaining about it. Her= e is an example for you: Word wrap simply doesn't work on labels in Linux b= ut it does work in Windows. Same code (literally), wildly different results= . Here's another: When using Tree_View.Set_Cursor with Start_Editing =3D> T= rue, you can't see what you are typing in Windows (looks like uneditable te= xt) 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 inconsi= stencies. Mind you none of them are style / color related.=20 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 GNATC= OLL and GTKAda involved. (Testing platforms: Kubuntu 15.04 x64 / Windows 7 = x32)