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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53611649a57c674a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-05 08:34:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!212.125.49.211!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Jeltsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GUI toolkit for Ada again Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 17:35:15 +0200 Message-ID: <9i21eb$g9ce7$3@ID-77306.news.dfncis.de> References: <9hqhm7$f3u2r$1@ID-77306.news.dfncis.de> <9i0042$gfcml$1@ID-77306.news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.125.49.211 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 994347275 17084871 212.125.49.211 (16 [77306]) User-Agent: KNode/0.4 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9477 Date: 2001-07-05T17:35:15+02:00 List-Id: Hello! > [...] > Except maybe for the scrollbars, none of what you describe above (modal > dialogs, push buttons, ...) has anything to do with the GUI toolkit that > is used. The GUI toolkit can only help the visual drawing (like how the > border of buttons, or the radio buttons,... are displayed), not what you > put in your window. Yes, you are right. This paragraph about button rows and non-modal dialogs was rather born out of my dissatisfaction with GUI look-and-feels in general, not just those provided by specific libraries. > [...] > This is a huge project, especially if you want to do it portable at the > same time. Why not provide a binding to wxWindows instead. Actually, I > even think there is one somewhere around, but I might be mistaken. Well, wxWindows is written in C++ and there are no standard ways for interfacing with C++. > Emmanuel Wolfgang