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From: Wolfgang Jeltsch <jeltsch@tu-cottbus.de>
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Subject: Re: GUI toolkit for Ada again
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:01:16 +0200
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Ok, I had a look at the screenshot. I have to say that it does not look 
like Windows at all but like an ordinary GTK+ application. There are no 
differences between this and GTK+ look on POSIX except of course for the 
title bar and the window border.
Why do so many people not care about details in GUIs? Just today I 
installed an application which was said to have "a modern Windows 
interface". The interface was in my opinion rather terrible - unusual 
looking scrollbars, non-modal dialogs where there should be modal ones, 
push button rows below the menu bar and so on, and so on.
Ok, obviously there is no such library I am looking for. I think I will 
begin to write one when I have time. The existence of wxWindows proves that 
it is possible to have a library fulfilling the requirements I have.
IMPORTANT: If someone of you is interested in participating in this project 
please tell me. 

Wolfgang


R. Srinivasan wrote:

> you may want to look at the ada source library browser developed with
> GTKAda. On Windows it looks quite like windows app. There is even a
> screenshot @ http://alibrowse.sourceforge.net (I have developed it further
> but I have had to take a breather before picking up where I left off.)
> 
> srini