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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9494b48ca8a786de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) Subject: Re: Would a standard 'universal' GUI specification be useful? Date: 1998/05/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 352256420 Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: houdini.camb.inmet.com References: <6j0r8s$c0t$1@plug.news.pipex.net> Organization: Intermetrics, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Nick Roberts (Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com) wrote: : ... : A standard 'universal' GUI facility (in the form, I fancy, of a hierarchy of : library package specifications, together with defining documentation) could : provide a single vehicle for Ada programmers to use the facilities of : different GUI environments, and the portability of their code would be : tremendously enhanced. I believe such a facility could also provide a : slightly easier way for Ada programmers to get to grips with a notoriously : slippery branch of modern programming (by hiding much of the messy details). I would recommend you base this either on the Java AWT, or on RR's "Claw." No need to start from scratch in this area. The advantage of basing it on the Java AWT is that you may be able to reuse the existing "DLL"s/Shared libraries that implement the low-level functionality of the Java AWT, allowing you to write the rest of the code in "portable" Ada. : ... : -- : Nick Roberts : ThoughtWing Software, Croydon, UK : ThoughtWing@dial.pipex.com -- -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/ Intermetrics, Inc. Burlington, MA USA