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,e6716362f4a1a035 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-24 10:23:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GUI toolkit for Ada Message-ID: References: <9h51he$c0efp$1@ID-77306.news.dfncis.de> <3B361BC8.66747869@easystreet.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 24 Jun 2001 13:23:23 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 993403405 216.44.122.34 (Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:23:25 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:23:25 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9077 Date: 2001-06-24T13:23:23-05:00 List-Id: In article <3B361BC8.66747869@easystreet.com>, Al Christians writes: > Larry Kilgallen wrote: >> > 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).