Re: Easiest way to build Qt/Gtk interfaces for Ada programs

[Justin Time <francois_fabien@hotmail.com>]

Le lundi 31 décembre 2012 22:49:28 UTC+1, Randy Brukardt a écrit :

 
> I'd rather use a smarter tool that scales well, because I don't have time to 
> learn a dozen tools for different sized projects. (If saving your 3 hours 
> requires a six hour learning curve -- which is optimistic -- what are you 
> gaining.) This is the same reason that I use Ada for virtually all of my 
> programming - even for throwaways (because it's not that unusual for the 
> throwaways to get used more than you think and need to be modified).
> 
> Anyway, tools choices are a fairly personal thing.
> 
> 
> 
>                                   Randy.

Tool was not the proper word. I would say it is a kind of helper.
When evaluating GTKAda/Glade3, I ended up doing a lot of cut and paste,
because the previous program for glade2 was not longer available.
Time-consuming and boring. Added Value for that = zero.
This helper is intended to replace what was existing previously and
the learning time for it should be small. 

The life-cycle of widgets in GTK is rather cryptic.
As mentionned in other posts there is no hands-on tutorial on designing
GTK applications, except for trivial ones (not specific to Ada).
So the average programmer will stick with VB for GUI applications.