Re: GUI toolkit for Ada

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3B361BC8.66747869@easystreet.com>, Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> 
> <jeltsch@tu-cottbus.de> writes:
>> > is there a multi-platform GUI toolkit for Ada out there, which uses native
>> > look-and-feel by using native GUI libraries?
>> 
>> I believe that is an impossible requirement.
>> The closest you could hope to achieve is least-common-denominator
>> use of native features.
> 
> There are two toolkits that connect to Tcl and Tk:  Rapid and VAD.  
> I think that Tk uses 'native' look and feel, whatever that means.

Certainly Tcl and Tk are not native to VMS or Windows.

> Rapid includes only a small set of widgets, but it is very easy 
> to get going with.  Another alternative is to use the Ada Web Server 
> or cgi to produce HTML as the GUI, so that presentation is through 
> the 'native' browser.  

A browser window is hardly a native GUI interface.
It is an application that uses the native GUI interface in an
application-specific fashion (the application being the browser).