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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-16 08:41:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Ada IDE and discussions Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:05:48 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9iuvsd$361$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <0zS27.187213$DG1.31590366@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com> <3B4FEFDE.10E7B423@snafu.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 995295949 3265 136.170.200.133 (16 Jul 2001 15:05:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jul 2001 15:05:49 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9996 Date: 2001-07-16T15:05:49+00:00 List-Id: The last time I looked at Gtk, my conclusion was this: "It has potential. It needs a good 'How To' book" It does work on Windows (I had some installation problems) and Unix systems, so you gain a lot in the way of portability. However, its look-and-feel is un-Windows-ish. Maybe thats a good thing - maybe not - that's a matter of perspective. Its a classic problem - if you want portability, you have to play to the least common denominator between systems. Personally, I'd like to have the portability. You may want to take a serious look at Gtk. For me (since I have to actually earn a living doing something that doesn't involve playing with things like Gnat & Gtk), I'm waiting for it to mature some more before taking another pass at it. The reason for me is that the Motif-ish style of building a GUI wasn't intuitively obvious (my world is different) and there was not a good "Let me take you step-by-step through the process of building a GUI with Gtk" manual available. I'd received advice to read up on the underlying C calls and got pointed at related documents of similar flavor. If I had the time, I suppose I could delve into it and learn enough to make it work. Maybe by now someone has written a "How To" guide for it & I should take another glance at it? I certainly wouldn't discourage you from looking it over. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "chris.danx" wrote in message news:JeX37.39341$B56.8075497@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com... > > That means there can be no use of GWindows and using GTK/Ada instead. I might > consider that, but I'm not familiar with Gtk at all, and it needs to support > accelerator keys, make plugins possible, allow dynamic menus, allow custom > controls to be created, and more. Also is Gtk not scripted, slowing the whole > thing down? > >